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1. The Causes and Consequences of COVID-19 Misperceptions: Understanding the Role of News and Social Media.

Bridgman, A., Loewen, P. J., Merkley, E., Owen, T, Ruths, D., Teichmann, L. & Zhilin, O. (2020)

The research investigates the relationship between media consumption (notably Twitter), misinformation, and essential attitudes and behaviours during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic.

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1. Living in an Unreal World: Fake News, Social Identity Theory, and Media Literacy.

Leonard, W., & The University of Alabama. Journalism. (2018).

This study examined fake news under the theoretical framework of Social Identification Theory, and whether media literacy could affect the perceived credibility of fake news stories. A survey was conducted in which respondents were asked to read two real and two fake stories and to measure the credibility of the stories. Perceived credibility for both real and fake stories was highly correlated with social identification.