The study was conducted on more than 1,500 adult participants between January and February of 2021.
The study was conducted in the United States across 47 states.
Canadians consumed and spread the most COVID-19-related misinformation on social media, the study found.
The study's results were publicized in the Journal of Child and Adolescent Counseling.
The findings appeared in the International Business Review.
In totality, nearly 670,000 tweets were evaluated, stemming from 186 users on the social platform.
A database containing messages/posts on Twitter was analyzed to uncover any potential early indications of an emerging pandemic in 2019.
The findings support the need for more robust fact-checking within social networking sites.
The study was conducted by the Pew Research Center.
The study appeared in Online Information Review.