COVID‐19 and misinformation: Is censorship of social media a remedy to the spread of medical misinformation?

Social media companies have resorted to censorship to suppress misinformation about the COVID‐19 pandemic. This is not the most prudent solution though given the uncertainties about the disease.[Image: see text]

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Autor principal: Niemiec, Emilia
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/PMC7645258/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33103289
http://dx.doi.org/10.15252/embr.202051420
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spelling pubmed-76452582020-11-06 COVID‐19 and misinformation: Is censorship of social media a remedy to the spread of medical misinformation? Niemiec, Emilia EMBO Rep Science & Society Social media companies have resorted to censorship to suppress misinformation about the COVID‐19 pandemic. This is not the most prudent solution though given the uncertainties about the disease.[Image: see text] John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2020-10-26 2020-11-05 /pmc/articles/PMC7645258/ /pubmed/33103289 http://dx.doi.org/10.15252/embr.202051420 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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COVID‐19 and misinformation: Is censorship of social media a remedy to the spread of medical misinformation?
title COVID‐19 and misinformation: Is censorship of social media a remedy to the spread of medical misinformation?
title_full COVID‐19 and misinformation: Is censorship of social media a remedy to the spread of medical misinformation?
title_fullStr COVID‐19 and misinformation: Is censorship of social media a remedy to the spread of medical misinformation?
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title_short COVID‐19 and misinformation: Is censorship of social media a remedy to the spread of medical misinformation?
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7645258/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33103289
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