Mitigating infodemics: The relationship between news exposure and trust and belief in COVID-19 fake news and social media spreading

• Jad Melki,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Communication Arts, Institute of Media Research and Training, Lebanese American University, Beirut, Lebanon

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• Hani Tamim,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon

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• Dima Hadid,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Emergency Medicine, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon

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• Maha Makki,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon

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• Jana El Amine,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Communication Arts, Institute of Media Research and Training, Lebanese American University, Beirut, Lebanon

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• Eveline Hitti

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: eh16@aub.edu.lb

  Affiliation Department of Emergency Medicine, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9576-895X

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