Balakrishnan, Vimala and Ng, Wei Zhen and Soo, Mun Chong and Han, Gan Joo and Lee, Choon Jiat (2022) Infodemic and fake news: A comprehensive overview of its global magnitude during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2021: a scoping review. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 78. ISSN 2212-4209, DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2022.103144.
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The spread of fake news increased dramatically during the COVID-19 pandemic worldwide. This study aims to synthesize the extant literature to understand the magnitude of this phenomenon in the wake of the pandemic in 2021, focusing on the motives and sociodemographic profiles, Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based tools developed, and the top trending topics related to fake news. A scoping review was adopted targeting articles published in five academic databases (January 2021-November 2021), resulting in 97 papers. Most of the studies were empirical in nature (N = 69) targeting the general population (N = 26) and social media users (N = 13), followed by AIbased detection tools (N = 27). Top motives for fake news sharing include low awareness, knowledge, and health/media literacy, Entertainment/Pass Time/Socialization, Altruism, and low trust in government/news media, whilst the phenomenon was more prominent among those with low education, males and younger. Machine and deep learning emerged to be the widely explored techniques in detecting fake news, whereas top topics were related to vaccine, virus, cures/remedies, treatment, and prevention. Immediate intervention and prevention efforts are needed to curb this anti-social behavior considering the world is still struggling to contain the spread of the COVID-19 virus.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Funders: | None |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | COVID-19; Fake news; Motives; Detection; Topic; Scoping review |
| Subjects: | P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics > Communication. Mass media |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Computer Science & Information Technology > Department of Information System |
| Depositing User: | Ms. Juhaida Abd Rahim |
| Date Deposited: | 16 Oct 2023 06:04 |
| Last Modified: | 24 Oct 2023 03:31 |
| URI: | http://eprints.um.edu.my/id/eprint/41639 |
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