Abstract
This study investigated the perception of emotionally driven COVID-19-related misinformation on Facebook to better understand the spread of misinformation on social media. Using the warranty theory, echo chambers, and confirmation bias as our theoretical frameworks, we conducted a web-based experiment. Sixty-three American adults participated in the study. The results found that people perceived accurate Facebook posts higher on information accuracy, message credibility, and amplification likelihood regardless of the number of six different emotional reactions (i.e., like, love, haha, wow, sad, and angry) and comments. At the same time, people with higher conspiracy beliefs rated higher on the message credibility of the misinformation.