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Twitter and Facebook posts about COVID-19 are less likely to spread misinformation compared to other health topics

The COVID-19 pandemic brought widespread attention to an “infodemic” of potential health misinformation. This claim has not been assessed based on evidence. We evaluated if health misinformation became more common during the pandemic. We gathered about 325 million posts sharing URLs from Twitter and...

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Autores principales: Broniatowski, David A., Kerchner, Daniel, Farooq, Fouzia, Huang, Xiaolei, Jamison, Amelia M., Dredze, Mark, Quinn, Sandra Crouse, Ayers, John W.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8754324/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35020727
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0261768