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A Stanford Conference on Social Media, Ethics, and COVID-19 Misinformation (INFODEMIC): Qualitative Thematic Analysis

Journal of Medical Internet Research, 2022
BackgroundThe COVID-19 pandemic continues to challenge the world’s population, with approximately 266 million cases and 5 million deaths to date. COVID-19 misinformation and disinformation led to vaccine hesitancy among the public,
Michael A Gisondi, Daniel Chambers, Tatum Minh La, Alexa Ryan, Adyant Shankar, Athena Xue, Rachel Anne Barber   +6 more
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Framework for Managing the COVID-19 Infodemic: Methods and Results of an Online, Crowdsourced WHO Technical Consultation

Journal of Medical Internet Research, 2020
BackgroundAn infodemic is an overabundance of information—some accurate and some not—that occurs during an epidemic. In a similar manner to an epidemic, it spreads between humans via digital and physical information systems.
Tangcharoensathien, Viroj, Calleja, Neville, Nguyen, Tim, Purnat, Tina, D’Agostino, Marcelo, Garcia-Saiso, Sebastian, Landry, Mark, Rashidian, Arash, Hamilton, Clayton, AbdAllah, Abdelhalim, Ghiga, Ioana, Hill, Alexandra, Hougendobler, Daniel, van Andel, Judith, Nunn, Mark, Brooks, Ian, Sacco, Pier Luigi, De Domenico, Manlio, Mai, Philip, Gruzd, Anatoliy, Alaphilippe, Alexandre, Briand, Sylvie   +21 more
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The link between reported cases of COVID-19 and the Infodemic Risk Index: A worldwide perspective

Frontiers in Sociology, 2023
In this brief report we followed the evolution of the COVID-19 Infodemic Risk Index during 2020 and clarified its connection with the epidemic waves, focusing specifically on their co-evolution in Europe, South America, and South-eastern Asia.
Federico Pilati, Riccardo Gallotti, Pier Luigi Sacco   +2 more
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Tune in to the prebunking network! Development and validation of six inoculation videos that prebunk manipulation tactics and logical fallacies in misinformation

Political Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Meta‐analyses have demonstrated how inoculation interventions increase the detection of misinformation, but their scalability has remained elusive. To address this, Study 1 (pre‐registered; N = 1,583) tested the efficacy of three short inoculation videos (prebunks) against three common manipulation tactics used in misinformation: (1 ...
Mikey Biddlestone, Jon Roozenbeek, Jane Suiter, Eileen Culloty, Sander van der Linden   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Islamic Faith Belief and Infodemic Toward Society's Compliance With Covid-19 Health Protocols

Al-Sihah: The Public Health Science Journal, 2023
The implementation of health protocols during Covid-19 pandemic is very important to the prevention of virus transmission, but it had not been implemented optimally.
Sitti Raodhah, Azman Arsyad
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Fighting an Infodemic: COVID-19 Fake News Dataset [PDF]

, 2020
Along with COVID-19 pandemic we are also fighting an `infodemic'. Fake news and rumors are rampant on social media. Believing in rumors can cause significant harm. This is further exacerbated at the time of a pandemic. To tackle this, we curate and release a manually annotated dataset of 10,700 social media posts and articles of real and fake news on ...
arxiv   +1 more source

Trust Erosion Framework for Organisational Responses to and Management of Global Emergencies

Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management, Volume 33, Issue 2, June 2025.
ABSTRACT In response to the societal crisis of trust widely documented by researchers and pollsters, this conceptual paper proposes a Trust Erosion Framework (TEF). By drawing analogies with the process of soil erosion, we postulate that the erosion of trust proceeds in stages: detachment, transportation and deposition.
LaShonda Eaddy, Santosh Vijaykumar, Yan Jin, Xuerong Lu, Swati Sharma, Aravind Sesagiri Raamkumar   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Fighting the COVID-19 Infodemic in Social Media: A Holistic Perspective and a Call to Arms [PDF]

arXiv, 2020
With the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, people turned to social media to read and to share timely information including statistics, warnings, advice, and inspirational stories. Unfortunately, alongside all this useful information, there was also a new blending of medical and political misinformation and disinformation, which gave rise to the first ...
arxiv  

Synthesizing Public Health Preparedness Mechanisms for High‐Impact Infectious Disease Threats: A Jurisdictional Scan

Journal of Evidence-Based Medicine, Volume 18, Issue 2, June 2025.
ABSTRACT Aim High‐impact infectious diseases pose major global health challenges, underscoring the urgent need for robust public health preparedness. Despite efforts to improve global health security, recent pandemics have revealed significant weaknesses in health systems’ preparedness and response capabilities.
KM Saif‐Ur‐Rahman, Nikita N. Burke, Lena Murphy, Randal Parlour, Máirín Boland, Petek Eylul Taneri, Bearach Reynolds, Mary Horgan, John N. Lavis, Declan Devane   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Deadly Infodemic: Social Media and the Power of COVID-19 Misinformation

Journal of Medical Internet Research, 2022
COVID-19 is currently the third leading cause of death in the United States, and unvaccinated people continue to die in high numbers. Vaccine hesitancy and vaccine refusal are fueled by COVID-19 misinformation and disinformation on social ...
Michael A Gisondi, Rachel Barber, Jemery Samuel Faust, Ali Raja, Matthew C Strehlow, Lauren M Westafer, Michael Gottlieb   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source