Fake News Content Shaping the COVID-19 Pandemic Fear: Virus Anxiety, Emotional Contagion, and Responsible Media Reporting

Employing recent research results covering fake news content shaping the COVID-19 pandemic fear, and building our argument by drawing on data collected from Gallup, GlobalWebIndex, Knight Foundation, Ofcom, Pew Research Center, Public Knowledge, Statista, and University of Canberra, we performed analyses and made estimates regarding the relationship between virus anxiety, emotional contagion, and responsible media reporting Structural equation modeling was used to analyze the collected data