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Transformers to Fight the COVID-19 Infodemic [PDF]
arXiv, 2021 The massive spread of false information on social media has become a global risk especially in a global pandemic situation like COVID-19. False information detection has thus become a surging research topic in recent months. NLP4IF-2021 shared task on fighting the COVID-19 infodemic has been organised to strengthen the research in false information ...
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Microbial Biotechnology, Volume 18, Issue 2, February 2025.The massive open online course (MOOC) “Microbiome & Health” (https://imoox.at/course/microbiome) highlights the importance of microbiome research. This MOOC exhibits above‐average completion rates for public participants and can be a valuable tool in raising awareness of the essential role of microbiomes for human health and the future of our planet ...
Matthias Schweitzer +4 more
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Tackling COVID-19 Infodemic using Deep Learning [PDF]
arXiv, 2021 Humanity is battling one of the most deleterious virus in modern history, the COVID-19 pandemic, but along with the pandemic there's an infodemic permeating the pupil and society with misinformation which exacerbates the current malady. We try to detect and classify fake news on online media to detect fake information relating to COVID-19 and ...
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Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, Volume 76, Issue 1, Page 289-325, January 2025.Abstract Misinformation is a complex and urgent sociotechnical problem that requires meaningful governance, in addition to technical efforts aimed at detection or classification and intervention or literacy efforts aimed at promoting awareness and identification.
Madelyn Rose Sanfilippo +2 more
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Characterizing information leaders in Twitter during COVID-19 Pandemic [PDF]
arXiv, 2020 Information is key during a crisis such as the one produced by the current COVID-19 pandemic as it greatly shapes people opinion, behavior and their psychology. Infodemic of misinformation is an important secondary crisis associated to the pandemic. Infodemics can amplify the real negative consequences of the pandemic in different dimensions: social ...
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Journal of Advanced Nursing, Volume 81, Issue 1, Page 116-139, January 2025.Abstract Aim To review the current nursing and midwifery contribution to leading digital health (DH) policy and practice and what facilitates and/or challenges this. Design Integrative literature review. Methods Pre‐defined inclusion criteria were used.
Gillian Janes +9 more
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TrollHunter [Evader]: Automated Detection [Evasion] of Twitter Trolls During the COVID-19 Pandemic [PDF]
New Security Paradigms Workshop (NSPW) 2020, 2020 This paper presents TrollHunter, an automated reasoning mechanism we used to hunt for trolls on Twitter during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. Trolls, poised to disrupt the online discourse and spread disinformation, quickly seized the absence of a credible response to COVID-19 and created a COVID-19 infodemic by promulgating dubious content on Twitter.
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Internet Search for Illicit Drugs in Italy: Infodemiological Analysis of Six Years of Research
Global Health, Epidemiology and Genomics, Volume 2025, Issue 1, 2025.This study explores the potential of Internet search data from Google Trends and Wikipedia as innovative tools for monitoring public interest and behavior related to illicit drug information. Employing a cross‐sectional study design, this research investigates the correlations between search patterns on these platforms and provides insights into public
Giuseppe Di Martino +10 more
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The COVID-19 Infodemic: Twitter versus Facebook [PDF]
arXiv, 2020 The global spread of the novel coronavirus is affected by the spread of related misinformation -- the so-called COVID-19 Infodemic -- that makes populations more vulnerable to the disease through resistance to mitigation efforts. Here we analyze the prevalence and diffusion of links to low-credibility content about the pandemic across two major social ...
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Alzheimer's &Dementia, Volume 20, Issue S4, December 2024.Abstract Background The spread of fake news may lead to a disparate wave of digital health‐seeking behavior, cyberchondria, anxiety, indecision, and other psychosocial dysfunctions, including collapse in social capital and stigmatization. In this study, we utilized a bibliometric analysis to discern the primary trends associated with health ...
Mohamed Taiebine +2 more
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