Optimal Policies to Battle the Coronavirus “Infodemic” Among Social Media Users in Sub-Saharan Africa

• In Event: Optimal Experimental Designs

Brief Overview

We run a contextual adaptive experiment on Facebook Messenger, recruiting subjects in Nigeria and Kenya. Building on the literature on combating fake news, we evaluate experimental interventions designed to decrease sharing of false COVID-19 cures.

Authors

• Molly Offer-Westort, Stanford University

• Leah Rosenzweig, Stanford University