Covid conspiracies: social media fatigue linked to misinformation

The spread of false information and conspiracy theories accelerated during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic. Inadvertently inaccurate, and some deliberately misleading, ideas were widely shared on social media channels on topics ranging from the origin of the SARS-CoV-2 virus to the safety of vaccines. Researchers at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, set out to understand why COVID-19 misinformation thrived and […]