Health disinformation & social media: The crucial role of information hygiene in mitigating conspiracy theory and infodemics

Social media has been an effective vector for spreading disinformation about medicine and science. Informational hygiene can reduce the severity of falsehoods about health. [Image: see text]

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Autor principal: Grimes, David Robert
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2020
Materias:
Science & Society
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7645170/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33155436
http://dx.doi.org/10.15252/embr.202051819
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spelling pubmed-76451702020-11-13 Health disinformation & social media: The crucial role of information hygiene in mitigating conspiracy theory and infodemics Grimes, David Robert EMBO Rep Science & Society Social media has been an effective vector for spreading disinformation about medicine and science. Informational hygiene can reduce the severity of falsehoods about health. [Image: see text] John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2020-11-05 2020-11-05 /pmc/articles/PMC7645170/ /pubmed/33155436 http://dx.doi.org/10.15252/embr.202051819 Text en © 2020 The Author. Published under the terms of the CC BY 4.0 license This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Health disinformation & social media: The crucial role of information hygiene in mitigating conspiracy theory and infodemics
title Health disinformation & social media: The crucial role of information hygiene in mitigating conspiracy theory and infodemics
title_full Health disinformation & social media: The crucial role of information hygiene in mitigating conspiracy theory and infodemics
title_fullStr Health disinformation & social media: The crucial role of information hygiene in mitigating conspiracy theory and infodemics
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title_short Health disinformation & social media: The crucial role of information hygiene in mitigating conspiracy theory and infodemics
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7645170/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33155436
http://dx.doi.org/10.15252/embr.202051819
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