Table 3.

Negative binominal regression results.

	Beta	95% Confidence Interval
		Lower Limit	Upper Limit
Themes (Reference = Public authority personnel, action or policy)
Private firms	.28*	.05	.50
Treatment and prevention of virus transmission	.51***	.24	.77
Diagnosis and health impacts	.43***	.18	.67
Virus origins	.41*	.12	.71
Virus information	−.02	−.27	.23
Economic impact	−.21	−.42	.01
Social impact	.46***	.19	.72
Types (Reference = Satire or parody)
Manipulated content	−.28	−.82	.26
Fabricated content	−.09	−.56	.38
Both manipulated and fabricated content	−.52	−1.05	.01
Imposter content	–	–	–
Emotions (Reference = Neutral)
Blame/anger	.15	−.08	.39
Hope/caring	–	–	–
Fear/anxiety	.04	−.18	.25
Happiness/Joy/Celebration	−.08	−.29	.13
None of the above	−.43***	−.66	−.20
Sources (Reference = Originated from prominent person or source)
Non-prominent person/source	−.18	−.52	.16
Source was removed/missing	−.15	−.50	.20
Fact-checking by Facebook (Reference = Nothing was flagged)
Flagged as false information by Facebook	.39**	.16	.63
Flagged as partly false information	−.31**	−.53	−.10
Flagged as altered	−.21	−.42	.01
Flagged as missing context	−.17	−.38	.04
Post was set to private, or was deleted	−.10	−.31	.12

Note. *: p < .05; **: p < .01, ***: p < .001.