Does a meme a day keep the doctor away? Not quite, but it looks like it might help, according to one recent study. They surveyed 748 people online last December: 72% of those who responded were ...

No matter what the news event is, we'll always see memes. COVID-19 is no exception. In this collection, Snopes investigates the memes, rumors, jokes, and misinformation spreading on social media ...

Among the participants who were shown memes, some had captions related to COVID, while others saw the same image but with a different caption unrelated to the pandemic. For instance, some ...

Memes may help people cope with the stress related to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to research published by the American Psychological Association. The study surveyed 748 people online in ...

Panic over the coronavirus and orders to stay inside have prompted a seriously funny crop of memes and TikToks from social media users desperate for a little levity right now. By last week ...

Using that data, we developed two pools of memes using the same images: One set had captions about COVID-19, and another set had captions unrelated to COVID-19. In our main study, we recruited ...

China chased people down with drones hollering at them to stay home. Suddenly the memes aren’t so funny. COVID-19 is called “novel coronavirus” because it’s a newly-discovered type of virus.

During the COVID-19 coronavirus disease pandemic of 2020, social media was rife with misinformation about the disease and potential treatments for it, as exemplified by the following meme: All of ...

When the coronavirus pandemic took hold, Jessica Gall Myrick found herself scrolling through pandemic memes on social media for a little levity at the end of the day. The cute ones with pictures ...

Social distancing memes are helping people cope amid fears over the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. As COVID-19 continues to spread, officials have urged the public to take social distancing ...