Table 4.

Summary of top trending fake news topic (N = 23).

Topic	Studies	Topic	Studies
Prevention	[32,[81], [82], [83], [84]]	Vaccine	[32,[85], [86], [87], [88], [89], [90], [91], [92], [93]]
Treatment	[32,81,83,84,90]	Virus	[84,86,89,[94], [95], [96]]
Medication	[35,84,97]	Politics	[32,33,86,90,98]
Government	[84,88,95,99,100]	Remedies/Cure	[35,82,86,89,95,100]
Science	[32,33,99]	Mask	[84,89,95,97]
Others: Technology; Pharma; Celebrity; Diagnosis; WHO, Unicef; Real-life stories; Warning; Public disorder; School reopening; Civil; Economic; Cases counts; Isolation; Pro-ecological; Fear-mongering; Animals; Food; Travel; Crime; Impact; Hospitals; Countries; Hygiene; Pandemic; Lockdown			[32,33,82,83,90,94,95,97,98,100]

Note: Only topics with a minimum of three mentions are highlighted.