COVID|19 Misinformation

Fighting coronavirus disinformation - European Commission

How to tackle disinformation on coronavirus by stating the facts on vaccines and COVID-19, how to identify conspiracy theories, and report disinformation.

COVID-19 Misinformation - Washington Medical Commission - WA.gov

The Washington Medical Commission's (WMC) position on COVID-19 prevention and treatment is that. COVID-19 is a disease process like other disease processes, ...

Medical misinformation policy - YouTube Help

Treatment misinformation; Denial misinformation. Note: YouTube's medical misinformation policies are subject to change in response to changes to guidance from ...

Effects of misinformation on COVID-19 individual responses and ...

This study tested a conceptual framework considering general misinformation belief, conspiracy belief, and religious misinformation belief as the stimulus.

Infodemic - World Health Organization (WHO)

An infodemic is too much information including false or misleading information in digital and physical environments during a disease outbreak.

Fighting the spread of COVID-19 misinformation | News

Health communication expert Kasisomayajula “Vish” Viswanath discussed COVID misinformation and disinformation, and how to fight it.

Misinformation about COVID-19: evidence for differential latent ...

The global spread of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has been mirrored by diffusion of misinformation and conspiracy theories about its ...

YouTube as a source of information on COVID-19 - BMJ Global Health

Over one-quarter of the most viewed YouTube videos on COVID-19 contained misleading information, reaching millions of viewers worldwide.

Report spotlights 52 US doctors who posted potentially harmful ...

52 physicians practicing in 28 different specialties across the United States propagated COVID-19 misinformation on vaccines, masks, and conspiracy theories.

Why COVID misinformation continues to spread - Penn Today

Penn Medicine's Anish Agarwal discusses why false claims about the virus and vaccines arise and persist, plus what he hopes will come from ...

Types, sources, and claims of COVID-19 misinformation

We analyse a sample of 225 pieces of misinformation rated false or misleading by fact-checkers and published in English between January and the ...

Measuring the impact of COVID-19 vaccine misinformation on ...

We conducted a randomized controlled trial in the UK and the USA to quantify how exposure to online misinformation around COVID-19 vaccines affects intent to ...

Evaluating COVID-19 Information - County of San Diego

Misinformation is information that is false, inaccurate, or misleading according to the best available evidence at the time.

A Systematic Review Of COVID-19 Misinformation Interventions

Governments, public health authorities, and social media platforms have employed various measures to counter misinformation that emerged ...

COVID-19 and Misinformation: Top Tips - Research Guides

This first page includes key evaluation strategies and resources. The next three pages offer tips for evaluating information in particular source formats.

Misinformation of COVID-19 on the Internet: Infodemiology Study

Background: The internet has become an important source of health information for users worldwide. The novel coronavirus caused a pandemic ...

Addressing COVID-19 Misinformation on Social Media Preemptively ...

The uncertainty around the emergence of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2, a novel coronavirus that causes coronavirus disease ( ...

Fighting Misinformation - Pfizer

We are dedicated to helping people find accurate, science-based information as they make healthcare decisions that impact their lives.

Public Health Misinformation Alerts | PHCC Data-Driven Monitoring

Alerts are based on the monitoring of publicly available media data from diverse sources like social media, broadcast television, news websites, blogs, online ...

A Strategy to Tackle Public Health Misinformation | AHA News

My research has identified the spread of false information and conspiracy theories as major obstacles to improving vaccination rates in the ...