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Sep 1, 2022 · Effects of online misinformation on people’s health behaviours. The systematic review found that people feel mental, social, political and/or economic distress due to misleading and false health-related content on social media during pandemics, health emergencies and humanitarian crises.
Jan 18, 2023 · In a 2021 Kaiser Family Foundation survey, nearly 8 in 10 people endorsed or considered a common falsehood about Covid-19. 4 Misinformation has caused harmful societal effects, from reluctance to...
Feb 15, 2022 · Disaster, health, and politics emerged as the three domains (“Appendix”) where misinformation can cause severe harm, often leading to casualties or even irreversible effects. The mitigation of these effects can also demand substantial financial or human resources burden considering the scale of effect and risk of spreading negative ...
- Sadiq Muhammed T, Saji K. Mathew
- Int J Data Sci Anal. 2022; 13(4): 271-285.
- 10.1007/s41060-022-00311-6
- 2022
Mar 10, 2022 · Although researchers have debated the effect of fake news on the outcomes of major societal events, such as political elections 2, 3, the spread of misinformation has much clearer potential...
- Sander Van Der Linden
- sander.vanderlinden@psychol.cam.ac.uk
Jan 12, 2022 · Anger has also been shown to promote belief in politically concordant misinformation 81 as well as COVID-19 misinformation 82. Finally, social exclusion, which is likely to induce a negative...
Sep 1, 2022 · The most negative consequences of health misinformation are the increase of misleading or incorrect interpretations of available evidence, impact on mental health, misallocation of health resources and an increase in vaccination hesitancy.
Falsehoods have been shown to spread faster and farther than accurate information, 1 and research suggests that misinformation can have negative effects in the real world, such as amplifying controversy about vaccines 2 and propagating unproven cancer treatments. 3 Health misinformation on social media, therefore, urgently requires greater actio...
