Inoculating against an infodemic: microlearning interventions to address CoV misinformation

This research examines digital misinformation flows pertaining to the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic for the purpose of developing educational interventions to reduce the spread of online misinformation. The dataset contains transcripts of 45 one-to-one, semi-structured interviews that were conducted in June/July 2020.

These interviews were used to gather data about how Canadians engaged with COVID-19 information online. Two different sets of interview questions were used: 18 of the transcripts follow protocol A, and 27 follow protocol B. Both protocols asked the same initial questions about COVID-19 information habits. Protocol A then asked questions about interviewee-provided media samples, while protocol B asked questions about interviewer-provided media samples.