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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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Web search engine misinformation notifier extension (SEMiNExt):a machine learning based approach during COVID-19 pandemic [PDF]
, 2021 Misinformation such as on coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) drugs, vaccination or presentation of its treatment from untrusted sources have shown dramatic consequences on public health. Authorities have deployed several surveillance tools to detect and
Rahman, A. (Ashiqur) +8 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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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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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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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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Regulating Misinformation [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2009 The government has responded to misleading advertising by banning it, engaging in counter-advertising and taxing the product. In this paper, we consider the social welfare effects of those different responses to misinformation. While misinformation lowers consumer surplus, its effect on social welfare is ambiguous.
Edward L. Glaeser, Gergely Ujhelyi
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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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Identifying patterns to prevent the spread of misinformation during epidemics
, 2021 This paper discusses patterns of public health misinformation observed during infectious disease epidemics. Specifically, we group epidemic-related misinformation into four categories: transmission, prevention, treatment, and vaccination.
Oladeji, O., Nsoesie, E.O.
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