A comparative analysis of the COVID-19 Infodemic in English and Chinese: insights from social media textual data [PDF]
Frontiers in Public Health, 2023 The COVID-19 infodemic, characterized by the rapid spread of misinformation and unverified claims related to the pandemic, presents a significant challenge.
Jia Luo +6 more
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Misinformation, believability, and vaccine acceptance over 40 countries: Takeaways from the initial phase of the COVID-19 infodemic. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2022 The COVID-19 pandemic has been damaging to the lives of people all around the world. Accompanied by the pandemic is an infodemic, an abundant and uncontrolled spread of potentially harmful misinformation.
Karandeep Singh +6 more
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Psychometric Analysis and Coupling of Emotions Between State Bulletins and Twitter in India during COVID-19 Infodemic [PDF]
arXiv, 2020 COVID-19 infodemic has been spreading faster than the pandemic itself. The misinformation riding upon the infodemic wave poses a major threat to people's health and governance systems. Since social media is the largest source of information, managing the infodemic not only requires mitigating of misinformation but also an early understanding of ...
Baani Leen Kaur Jolly +5 more
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Findings of the NLP4IF-2021 Shared Tasks on Fighting the COVID-19 Infodemic and Censorship Detection [PDF]
NLP4IF-2021, 2021 We present the results and the main findings of the NLP4IF-2021 shared tasks. Task 1 focused on fighting the COVID-19 infodemic in social media, and it was offered in Arabic, Bulgarian, and English. Given a tweet, it asked to predict whether that tweet contains a verifiable claim, and if so, whether it is likely to be false, is of general interest, is ...
Shaden Shaar +6 more
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'I'm glad my baby has weaned so I don't need to make that decision.' Understanding breastfeeding-related COVID-19 vaccine narratives on social media. [PDF]
Health Promot J AustrAbstract Issue Addressed During the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) pandemic, the infodemic has been highly visible. Vaccine‐related advice and evidence‐based guidelines for breastfeeding women have lagged, and, at times have been contradictory and confusing.
White BK, Burns SK, Carson J, Scott JA.
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COVID-19 infodemic and adult and elderly mental health: a scoping review
Revista da Escola de Enfermagem da USP, 2021 Objective: to map scientific knowledge about the repercussions of the infodemic on adult and elderly mental health in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Cássia Evangelista Delgado +5 more
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Understanding Interventions to Address Infodemics Through Epidemiological, Socioecological, and Environmental Health Models: Framework Analysis [PDF]
JMIR InfodemiologyBackgroundThe COVID-19 pandemic was accompanied by a barrage of false, misleading, and manipulated information that inhibited effective pandemic response and led to thousands of preventable deaths.
Jennifer N John +2 more
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Psychometric Analysis and Coupling of Emotions Between State Bulletins and Twitter in India During COVID-19 Infodemic [PDF]
Frontiers in Communication, 2021 COVID-19 infodemic has been spreading faster than the pandemic itself. The misinformation riding upon the infodemic wave poses a major threat to people’s health and governance systems.
Palash Aggrawal +5 more
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Journal of Medical Internet ResearchBackgroundThe mpox pandemic has caused widespread public concern around the world. The spread of misinformation through the internet and social media could lead to an infodemic that poses challenges to mpox control ...
XiangYu Yan +22 more
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The library’s role in countering infodemics
Journal of the Medical Library Association, 2021 Internet and communication technologies enable the creation of tremendous amounts of textual, graphic, and pictorial information. User-generated content published through personal web pages, blogs, and social media platforms has not only increased the ...
Philip Walker
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