Misinformation About COVID-19 Vaccines on Social Media: Rapid Review
Journal of Medical Internet Research, 2022 BackgroundThe development of COVID-19 vaccines has been crucial in fighting the pandemic. However, misinformation about the COVID-19 pandemic and vaccines is spread on social media platforms at a rate that has made the World ...
Ingjerd Skafle +4 more
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The illusory truth effect leads to the spread of misinformation
, 2022 Misinformation can negatively impact people’s lives in domains ranging from health to politics. An important research goal is to understand how misinformation spreads in order to curb it.
Valentina Vellani +3 more
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Propaganda, misinformation, and histories of media techniques [PDF]
, 2021 This essay argues that the recent scholarship on misinformation and fake news suffers from a lack of historical contextualization. The fact that misinformation scholarship has, by and large, failed to engage with the history of propaganda and with how ...
Christopher Anderson
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Neutralizing misinformation through inoculation: Exposing misleading argumentation techniques reduces their influence. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 Misinformation can undermine a well-functioning democracy. For example, public misconceptions about climate change can lead to lowered acceptance of the reality of climate change and lowered support for mitigation policies.
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The Influence Of Misinformation On Twitter During COVID-19 [PDF]
, 2023 openThere has been a significant impact on people's behavior due to misinformation, especially during the Coronavirus Disease 2019, which directly affects general health awareness.
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The effect of question type on resistance to misinformation about present and absent details
, 2020 The typical misinformation effect shows that accuracy is lower for details about which people received misleading compared to non‐misleading (control) information. In two experiments, we examined the misinformation effect for non‐witnessed details (i.e.,
Sharman, Stefanie J +7 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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“With a little help from my friends…”: the role of co-witness relationship in susceptibility to misinformation [PDF]
, 2008 Inaccuracies in eyewitness accounts can occur when witnesses are exposed to post-event misinformation via discussion with a co-witness. The current study examined the role of co-witness relationship by comparing the memory performance of pairs of ...
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Journal of Medical Internet Research, 2022 BackgroundTransient migrants such as international students have received limited support from host country governments throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.
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The effect of misinformation acceptance on COVID-19 prevention behaviors [PDF]
International Journal of Information Science and ManagementThe acceptance of misinformation about COVID-19 has had irreversible consequences on public health during the pandemic. The current study was conducted to investigate the effect of misinformation acceptance on preventive behaviors related to COVID-19 and
Leila Dehghani +3 more
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