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Journal of Medical Internet Research, 2020 BackgroundOnline misinformation proliferation during the COVID-19 pandemic has become a major public health concern. ObjectiveWe aimed to assess the prevalence of COVID-19 misinformation exposure and beliefs, associated factors including ...
Lee, Jung Jae +7 more
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Scientific Reports, 2021 The global rise of COVID-19 health risk has triggered the related misinformation infodemic. We present the first analysis of COVID-19 misinformation networks and determine few of its implications.
Mingxi Cheng +3 more
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Social media and COVID-19 misinformation: how ignorant Facebook users are?
Heliyon, 2021 The COVID-19 pandemic has claimed a lot of lives around the world, not only with the virus but also with misinformation. Many researchers have investigated COVID-19 misinformation, but none of them was related to social media users’ diverse responses to ...
Md. Sayeed Al-Zaman
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 In this exploratory study with a community sample (N = 115), we look at the perception of pro-Russia and pro-Ukraine misinformation, mimicking content shared by naive Facebook users, and the factors related to it among pro-Ukraine Latvians.
Martins Priedols, Girts Dimdins
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On Education. Journal for Research and Debate, 2020 An analysis of ‘misinformation’, a primary framing for vaccination dissent, illuminates weaknesses in understanding vaccination controversy and the dissemination of false beliefs. Rather than approaching vaccine dissenters as misinformed, we can identify how untruths circulate in good-faith efforts to identify facts and clarify the challenges that the ...
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Breast cancer prevention and treatment misinformation on Twitter: An analysis of two languages
Digital Health, 2023 Objective To determine the prevalence and types of misinformation on Twitter related to breast cancer prevention and treatment; and compare the differences between the misinformation in English and Malay tweets.
Izzati Yussof +5 more
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Partisan asymmetries in exposure to misinformation
Scientific Reports, 2022 Online misinformation is believed to have contributed to vaccine hesitancy during the Covid-19 pandemic, highlighting concerns about social media’s destabilizing role in public life.
Ashwin Rao +2 more
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BMC Public Health, 2023 Background The proliferation of health misinformation on social media is a growing public health concern. Online communities for mental health (OCMHs) are also considered an outlet for exposure to misinformation.
Nicole Bizzotto +2 more
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Self- and Social Corrections on Instant Messaging Platforms
International Journal of Communication, 2022 The affordances of instant messaging platforms (IMPs) have made them ready conduits for misinformation, with their popularity aggravating the misinformation problem.
Sheryl Wei Ting Ng, Taberez Ahmed Neyazi
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Different types of COVID-19 misinformation have different emotional valence on Twitter
Big Data & Society, 2021 The spreading of COVID-19 misinformation on social media could have severe consequences on people's behavior. In this paper, we investigated the emotional expression of misinformation related to the COVID-19 crisis on Twitter and whether emotional ...
Marina Charquero-Ballester +3 more
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