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Summary statistics for sources of COVID-19 fact-checking posts.
| Information source | Facebook pages (N=2644), n (%) | Posts (N=12,553), n (%) |
| News media | 95 (3.6) | 5821 (46.4) |
| Hospitals | 1096 (41.5) | 4921 (39.2) |
| Third-party fact checkers | 9 (0.3) | 1523 (12.1) |
| US health media | 26 (1.0) | 288 (2.3) |
