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An Exploratory Study of COVID-19 Misinformation on Twitter [PDF]
, 2020 During the COVID-19 pandemic, social media has become a home ground for misinformation. To tackle this infodemic, scientific oversight, as well as a better understanding by practitioners in crisis management, is needed.
Dirkson, Anne +2 more
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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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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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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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False memory ≠ false memory: DRM errors are unrelated to the misinformation effect [PDF]
, 2013 The DRM method has proved to be a popular and powerful, if controversial, way to study 'false memories'. One reason for the controversy is that the extent to which the DRM effect generalises to other kinds of memory error has been neither satisfactorily ...
Blank, Hartmut +5 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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Alcohol-induced retrograde facilitation renders witnesses of crime less suggestible to misinformation [PDF]
, 2017 RATIONALE: Research has shown that alcohol can have both detrimental and facilitating effects on memory: intoxication can lead to poor memory for information encoded after alcohol consumption (anterograde amnesia) and may improve memory for information ...
A Hagsand +43 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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