Leveraging Religiosity Against COVID-19 Misinformation: Experimental Evidence from India

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

Brief Overview

Using verses from religious scriptures exhorting people to believe in the truth, alongside corrections, we are able to reduce the uptake of COVID-19 falsehoods among respondents in India.

Authors

• Sumitra Badrinathan, University of Oxford

• Simon Chauchard, Leiden University