Table 1.

Reviewed articles

Sl. no.	Year	Author	Theory	Theme			Platform and method
				Disaster	Health	Politics
1	2013	Oh et al. [9]	Rumor theory	✓			Twitter, text mining
2	2014	Liu et al. [13]	Rumor theory	✓			Twitter, text mining
3	2018	Jang et al. [19]	Nil			✓	Twitter, text mining
4	2018	Oh et al. [15]	Rumor theory	✓			Twitter & Facebook, survey method
5	2017	Abdullah et al. [25]	Nil	✓			Twitter, text mining
6	2015	Lee et al. [26]	Diffusion theory	✓			Twitter, text mining
7	2018	Mondal et al. [27]	Nil	✓			Twitter, text mining
8	2016	Chua et al. [28]	Third person effect	✓			Twitter, text mining
9	2015	Bode and Vraga [29]	Nil		✓		Facebook, experimental method
10	2016	Simon et al. [30]	Nil	✓			WhatsApp, survey method
11	2018	Ghenai and Mejova [31]	Nil		✓		Twitter, mixed method
12	2017	Chua and Banerjee [32]	Nil		✓		Twitter & Facebook, experimental method
13	2017	Kou et al. [33]	Nil		✓		Reddit, mixed method
14	2019	Gu and Hong [34]	Nil		✓		WeChat, experimental method
15	2017	Bode and Vraga [35]	Nil		✓		Facebook, experimental method
16	2019	Kim et al. [36]	Reputation theory			✓	Facebook, experimental method
17	2018	Chua and Banerjee [37]	Rumor theory		✓		Social media, experimental method
18	2018	Murungi et al. [38]	Rhetorical theory			✓	Social media, case study method
19	2020	Pennycook et al. [39]	Nil			✓	Facebook, experimental method
20	2019	Garrett and Poulsen [40]	Nil			✓	Facebook, experimental method
21	2017	Shin and Thorson [41]	Nil			✓	Twitter, text mining
22	2019	Kim and Dennis [42]	Nil			✓	Facebook, experimental method
23	2017	Hazel Kwon and Raghav Rao [43]	Rumor theory			✓	Social media, survey method
24	2019	Paek and Hove [44]	Situational crisis communication theory (SCCT)	✓			Social media, experimental method
25	2019	Moravec et al. [45]	Nil			✓	Facebook, experimental method
26	2021	Golshan Madraki et al. [46]	Nil		✓		Social Media, opportunistic sampling
27	2020	Shahi et al. [47]	Nil		✓		Twitter, exploratory study
28	2021	Jacqueline Otala et al. [48]	Nil			✓	Parler and Twitter, case study method