The Impact of the Online COVID-19 Infodemic on French Red Cross Actors' Field Engagement and Protective Behaviors: Mixed Methods Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The COVID-19 pandemic has been widely described as an infodemic, an excess of rapidly circulating information in social and traditional media in which some information may be erroneous, contradictory, or inaccurate. One key theme cutting across many infodemic analyses is that it stymies users' capacities to identify appropriate information and guidelines, encourages them to take inappropriate or even harmful actions, and should be managed through multiple transdisciplinary approaches. Yet, investigations demonstrating how the COVID-19 information ecosystem influences complex public decision making and behavior offline are relatively few.

Objective

The aim of this study was to investigate whether information reported through the social media channel Twitter, linked

SUBMITTER: Heyerdahl LW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8507423 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature