Optimal Policies to Battle the Coronavirus “Infodemic” Among Social Media Users in East and West Africa

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

Brief Overview

Using a contextual adaptive experimental, we target and evaluate the most effective online interventions to Facebook users in Kenya and Nigeria to combat the sharing of COVID-19 misinformation.

Authors

• Molly Offer-Westort, University of Chicago

• Leah Rosenzweig, University of Chicago

• Susan Athey, Stanford University