Volume 27, Number 2—February 2021
Research
Addressing COVID-19 Misinformation on Social Media Preemptively and Responsively
Emily K. Vraga
and Leticia Bode
and Leticia Bode
Table 1
Comparing participants in correction conditions to control condition for wave 1 using regression analysis in study of addressing COVID-19 misinformation on social media*
| Condition | Body temperature |
COVID-19 prevention |
|||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beta | SE | Beta | SE | ||
| Pure control [reference] |
– |
– |
– |
– |
|
| Misinformation only |
–0.06 |
0.08 |
–0.13 |
0.09 |
|
| WHO preemptive |
–0.40‡ |
0.09 |
–0.12 |
0.09 |
|
| User preemptive |
–0.26† |
0.08 |
–0.10 |
0.09 |
|
| WHO responsive |
–0.46‡ |
0.08 |
–0.14 |
0.09 |
|
| User responsive |
–0.30‡ |
0.08 |
–0.05 |
0.09 |
|
| Adjusted R2 | 0.028‡ |
0.000 |
|||
*Adjusted R2 indicates the variance explained by the overall model. COVID-19, coronavirus disease; WHO, World Health Organization. †p<0.01. ‡p<0.001.
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