What is Social Media Platforms

This chapter attempts to identify the adaptive capacities of young adults dealing with misleading information about Covid-19 on social media platforms and how they were able to maintain detecting misleading posts about Covid-19. Therefore, this chapter was keen to survey 204 individuals to find out how young people could deal with misleading information on social media platforms and the tools they use to verify information, considering their new media literacy and the rate of their usage of social media platforms, as they are important variables in creating an analytical critical mindset. Results indicated that the presence of a high level of new media literacy among the sample contributed greatly to their knowledge and use of tools for verifying information on social media platforms, and there was a positive correlation between the rate of usage of social media platforms and two-dimensions of new media literacy: functional prosumption and critical prosumption.