Dataset Open Access
Content analysis dataset of health and science-related hoaxes during COVID-19 in Spain
Bienvenido León; Pilar Martínez-Costa; Ramón Salaverría; Ignacio López-Goñi
This dataset contains the coding of content analysis of a sample of hoaxes debunked by three fact checkers in Spain (N = 533): Maldita.es (N = 327), Newtral (N = 143), and EFE Verifica (N = 63). Coding includes de following variables:
0. Subject of the hoax: science/health, politics/government, other.
- Platform used to spread the hoax: networks (in general), Twitter, Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, YouTube, and others.
- Formats used: text, audio, image, video, other.
- Geographical scope: local, national, international, unspecified/not applicable.
- Type of hoax: joke, exaggeration, decontextualization, deception.
- Topic of hoaxes related to science/health: scientific research, scientific policy and health management, advice issued to the public, and others.
- Topic of hoaxes related to scientific research: origin of the virus, transmissibility, fatality rate, treatments, vaccines, etc.
- Source type: anonymous, spoofed, fictitious, real.
- Non-anonymous sources: members of the public, business, government, professional, healthcare/science.
- Type of healthcare/science sources: researchers, international scientific organizations, national scientific organizations, health professionals, and others.
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- Publication date:
- June 2, 2021
- DOI:
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- Keyword(s):
- Covid-19 Infodemics; Hoaxes Misinformation Spain
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- License (for files):
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International