Correction to: Nature Human Behaviour https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-021-01056-1, published online 5 February 2021.

In the version of this article initially published, the reference number of the ethics application approved by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine ethics committee was incorrectly quoted. The correct number is 22647. Also, debriefing information was originally only provided in Supplementary Information. The following sentence has been added for clarification to the Methods section in the updated article: “All respondents exposed to misinformation were debriefed after the survey; debriefing information can be found in the questionnaire included in Supplementary Information.” These errors have been corrected in the PDF and HTML versions of this article.