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An Empirical Research on How to Tackle Infodemic in China: Stakeholders and Algorithms
Frontiers in Political Science, 2022 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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JMIR Infodemiology, 2021 BackgroundAn infodemic is an overflow of information of varying quality that surges across digital and physical environments during an acute public health event.
Neville Calleja +71 more
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Understanding COVID-19 Vaccine Campaign on Facebook using Minimal Supervision [PDF]
, 2022 In the age of social media, where billions of internet users share information and opinions, the negative impact of pandemics is not limited to the physical world. It provokes a surge of incomplete, biased, and incorrect information, also known as an infodemic.
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JMIR Infodemiology, 2023 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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Glimpsing Indonesia’s Social Media Discourse: What Goes on During the Covid-19 Infodemic
REiLA, 2023 The COVID-19 pandemic has led to an "infodemic", of false and true information circulating on social media platforms. This phenomenon has posed various challenges in implementing disaster management programs to mitigate the effects of the pandemic, both ...
Rafi Ronny +2 more
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Infodemics and infodemiology: a short history, a long future
Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública, 2021 An infodemic is defined as an overabundance of information some accurate and some not occurring during an epidemic. This paper describes the characteristics of an infodemic, which combines an inordinately high volume of information (leading to ...
Chris Zielinski
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The Impact of Government Social Media Information Quality on Public Panic During the Infodemic
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 The COVID-19 pandemic triggered the first global “Infodemic” in the era of social media. Understanding how governments deal with the negative impacts of the infodemic (e.g., public panic) has become a priority.
Shanshan Zhai +2 more
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RUDN Journal of Studies in Literature and Journalism, 2021 The article raises the problem of the destructive impact of the infodemic phenomenon on the life of the society. In order to understand the todays infodemic the author suggests conducting a comparative analysis of the media coverage of the SARS epidemic ...
Alexander V. Zemlyanskiy
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Fighting the COVID-19 Infodemic with a Holistic BERT Ensemble [PDF]
arXiv, 2021 This paper describes the TOKOFOU system, an ensemble model for misinformation detection tasks based on six different transformer-based pre-trained encoders, implemented in the context of the COVID-19 Infodemic Shared Task for English. We fine tune each model on each of the task's questions and aggregate their prediction scores using a majority voting ...
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QCRI's COVID-19 Disinformation Detector: A System to Fight the COVID-19 Infodemic in Social Media [PDF]
arXiv, 2022 Fighting the ongoing COVID-19 infodemic has been declared as one of the most important focus areas by the World Health Organization since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. While the information that is consumed and disseminated consists of promoting fake cures, rumors, and conspiracy theories to spreading xenophobia and panic, at the same time there ...
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