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How to Fight an Infodemic: The Four Pillars of Infodemic Management
Journal of Medical Internet Research, 2020 In this issue of the Journal of Medical Internet Research, the World Health Organization (WHO) is presenting a framework for managing the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) infodemic.
Eysenbach, Gunther
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Effect of COVID-19 Related Infodemic on Health of General Public of Pakistan
Journal of Islamic International Medical College, 2021 Objective: To know the public opinion about the role of infodemic in spreading fear & panic among the public of Pakistan and to assess the effect of fear created by infodemic on their health. Study Design: This was a cross sectional survey.
Azeema Noor , Tahira Sadiq
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International Journal of Digital Earth, 2021 The pandemic of COVID-19 witnessed a massive infodemic with the public being bombarded with vast quantities of information. The spreading of neutral and highly accurate reports can guide the public to self-protect and reduce the pandemic.
Xiaoqi Zhang +6 more
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Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The Global Pandemic Monitoring Board (GPMB) is a group of eminent individuals publishing reports calling for increased emphasis on pandemic prevention, preparedness, and response (PPPR). They advocate for the World Health Organization's (WHO) PPPR preferred approach and its attendant financial requests. Though claiming independence, GPMB is co‐
David Bell +3 more
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Global Infodemiology of COVID-19: Analysis of Google Web Searches and Instagram Hashtags
Journal of Medical Internet Research, 2020 BackgroundAlthough “infodemiological” methods have been used in research on coronavirus disease (COVID-19), an examination of the extent of infodemic moniker (misinformation) use on the internet remains limited. ObjectiveThe aim of this paper
Rovetta, Alessandro +1 more
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Challenges in Combating COVID-19 Infodemic -- Data, Tools, and Ethics [PDF]
arXiv, 2020 While the COVID-19 pandemic continues its global devastation, numerous accompanying challenges emerge. One important challenge we face is to efficiently and effectively use recently gathered data and find computational tools to combat the COVID-19 infodemic, a typical information overloading problem.
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Trust issues: Adolescents' epistemic vigilance towards online sources
British Journal of Developmental Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract Development of epistemic vigilance towards online information is crucial for adolescents in the context of widespread online ‘information pollution’. Children have demonstrated selective mistrust of webpages with typographical but not semantic errors.
Pip Brown, Michaela Gummerum
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Characterizing the roles of bots during the COVID-19 infodemic on Twitter [PDF]
arXiv, 2020 An infodemic is an emerging phenomenon caused by an overabundance of information online. This proliferation of information makes it difficult for the public to distinguish trustworthy news and credible information from untrustworthy sites and non-credible sources. The perils of an infodemic debuted with the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic and bots (i.
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Infodemic, misinformation and the COVID-19
Payesh, 2020 In the information era, the coronavirous disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak has brought new challenges to the world. Infodemic is regarded as a serious problem for public health since it can affect peoples’ life in many aspects, in particular peoples ...
Parisa Mokhatri-Hesari +2 more
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Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review, 2020 In February 2020, the World Health Organization announced an ‘infodemic’—a deluge of both accurate and inaccurate health information—that accompanied the global pandemic of COVID-19 as a major challenge to effective health communication.
Amelia M. Jamison +5 more
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