The overwhelming volume of social media content on the novel coronavirus has threatened the global public health information system with millions of harmful texts, pictures, and audio and video clips. With this, social media appears a major source of infodemic around the COVID-19 pandemic. Given the importance of information management in disease prevention and control, the present study conducted a review of the existing literature to analyze the impact of social media on COVID-19 pandemic. The primary objective of this study is to explore the literature to understand factors that are responsible for the mass inclination to social media and how the infodemic it facilitated influences COVID-19 information management system. Thus, this study is poised to reconfigure the object of research agenda on social media and COVID-19 with the understanding that information communication technologies (ICT) and society are in a mutualshaping relationship.