Social Media Misinformation During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Impacts on Public Mental Health Introduction: Some behavioral measures such as handwashing, masking or social distancing are among the most effective tools to combat COVID-19 pandemic. Objectives: Describe the extent to whic...
Communication of COVID-19 Misinformation on Social Media by Physicians in the US. JAMA Netw Open. 2023 Aug 1;6(8):e2328928. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2023.28928. PMID: 37581886; PMCID: PMC10427940. 2. COVID-19 Forecasting Team. Past SARS-CoV-2 infection protection against re-infection:...
where the health officials found several cases of overdose of chloroquine (a drug used to treat malaria) after news on the purported effectiveness of the drug for treating COVID-19 spread through the news media [4]. Rumors
A GP ordered not to discuss the COVID-19 pandemic on social media after he was accused of allegedly spreading "misinformation" online faces a "severe" restriction on his freedom of speech, the High Court has heard. Dr Samuel White Dr Samuel White is appealing against interim conditions ...
COVID-19 and social-politics of medical misinformation on social media in PakistanThe COVID-19 outbreak, emerging from China, continues to pose serious threats to the world's social, economic, and health systems. In this commentary, we discuss the current situation of COVID-19 in Pakistan ...
COVID-19: Contextualizing Misinformation Flows in a US Latinx Border Community (Media and Communication During COVID-19)This study shows how research on misinformation correction on social media must be contextualized by an understanding of race, class, and local culture. Using an inductive analysis...
Social MediaPandemicCovid-19CoronovirusInformationMisinformationCoronavirus disease (COVID-19) is an infectious disease caused by a newly discovered novel strain of coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2 (WHO, 2020). Most people infected wdoi:10.2139/ssrn.3596058R, Jayaseelan...
“The Africa Infodemic Response Alliance [AIRA], an initiative co-hosted by the World Health Organization regional office for Africa, picked up on these rumours through its regular social media listening,” Atuhebwe wrote in an emailed statement toJAMA. ...
The spread of misinformation on social media has become a major societal issue during recent years. In this work, we used the ongoing COVID‐19 pandemic as a case study to systematically investigate factors associated with the spread of multi‐topic misinformation related to one event on social ...
Although much of this work has come from the political domain, very similar findings have been found in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, during which 'superspreaders' on Twitter and Facebook were exerting a majority of the influence on the platform74. A major issue is the existence ...