Belief in COVID-19 Misinformation in Nigeria

• In Event: Understanding and Countering COVID-19 Misinformation in the Global South

Brief Overview

Using a panel survey of a sample of urban middle-class Nigerians, we find that opposition party support and social media usage are correlated with belief in anti-government misinformation, but not other types of COVID-19 misinformation.

Authors

• Joshua Goldstein, University of Oxford

• Shelby Grossman, Stanford University

• Meredith Startz, Dartmouth