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COVID-19 infodemic on Chinese social media: A 4P framework, selective review and research directions
During the outbreak of the COVID-19 (2019 coronavirus disease), misinformation related to the virus spread rapidly online and have led to serious difficulties in controlling the disease.
Jia Luo, Rui Xue, Jinglu Hu
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On the definition of infodemic and the role of librarians: a conversation with Tina Purnat of WHO
If in 2017 the buzzword was ‘fake news’, since 2020 it was replaced by ‘infodemic’, a different phenomenon, yet connected to information disorder. In 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) opened a call for a training for infodemic managers, within ...
Matilde Fontanin
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COMBATING INFODEMIC COVID-19: GOVERNMENT RESPONSE AGAINST FAKE NEWS ON SOCIAL MEDIA
The global commitment to fighting the pandemic is not only about medical and epidemiological work, but also about how information about the disease is disseminated. The threat of the Covid-19 infodemic is no less dangerous than the pandemic itself.
Andi Luhur Prianto +4 more
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A Framework of AI-Based Approaches to Improving eHealth Literacy and Combating Infodemic
The global COVID-19 pandemic has put everyone in an urgent need of accessing and comprehending health information online. Meanwhile, there has been vast amount of information/misinformation/disinformation generated over the Internet, particularly social ...
Tianming Liu, Xiang Xiao
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An Empirical Research on How to Tackle Infodemic in China: Stakeholders and Algorithms
The COVID-19 pandemic was accompanied by an infodemic, which has now become a global concern. Despite the relatively timely and extensive guidelines regarding COVID-19 prevention and treatment, effective and standardized solutions for managing this ...
Zining Wang, Jing Xu
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Infodemics in an Era of Pandemics [PDF]
Comment on : Ennab F, Nawaz FA, Narain K, Nchasi G, Essar MY, Head MG, Singla RK, Atanasov AG, Shen B. Monkeypox Outbreaks in 2022: Battling Another "Pandemic" of Misinformation. Int J Public Health. 2022 Jul 14;67:1605149. doi: 10.3389/ijph.2022.1605149. PMID: 35910429; PMCID: PMC9329665.
Nina Emery +3 more
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COVID-19 infodemic and adult and elderly mental health: a scoping review
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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Managing the modern infodemic [PDF]
As if facing a novel coronavirus was not bad enough, health care professionals today have to contend with a torrent of misleading information circulating via social media. As Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the Director-General of the World Health Organization, noted in mid-February, “We’re not ...
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BackgroundAn infodemic is excess information, including false or misleading information, that spreads in digital and physical environments during a public health emergency.
Elisabeth Wilhelm +58 more
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Dear Reader, With the passage of about one year since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, huge amounts of scientific research data on COVID-19 are being generated daily and we have thus substantial information and understanding of the disease. While treatment with known anti-viral drugs, monoclonal antibodies, steroids and APIs continues, focus is ...
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