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Kevin K. W. Ho and Shaoyu Ye
The COVID-19 pandemic heightened concerns about health and safety, leading people to seek information to protect themselves from infection. Even before the pandemic, false health information was spreading on social media. We conducted a review of recent ...
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Andra Sandu, Ioana Ioana?, Camelia Delcea, Laura-Madalina Geanta and Liviu-Adrian Cotfas
The proliferation of misinformation presents a significant challenge in today?s information landscape, impacting various aspects of society. While misinformation is often confused with terms like disinformation and fake news, it is crucial to distinguish...
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Ahmed Asa?ad Al-Aghbari, Violet Naanyu, Stanley Luchters, Eunice Irungu, Kawthar Baalawy, Till Bärnighausen and Joy Mauti
Following the rapid development of COVID-19 vaccines, addressing vaccine hesitancy and optimizing uptake have emerged as critical challenges, emphasizing the importance of reducing barriers toward COVID-19 vaccination. This study investigates ideas on wa...
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Félix Gélinas-Gascon and Richard Khoury
Negative social media usage during the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of understanding the spread of misinformation and toxicity in public online discussions. In this paper, we propose a novel unsupervised method to discover the structu...
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Tianyi Xie, Yaorong Ge, Qian Xu and Shi Chen
Understanding different aspects of public concerns and sentiments during large health emergencies, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, is essential for public health agencies to develop effective communication strategies, deliver up-to-date and accurate healt...
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Patricia Takako Endo, Guto Leoni Santos, Maria Eduarda de Lima Xavier, Gleyson Rhuan Nascimento Campos, Luciana Conceição de Lima, Ivanovitch Silva, Antonia Egli and Theo Lynn
Public health interventions to counter the COVID-19 pandemic have accelerated and increased digital adoption and use of the Internet for sourcing health information. Unfortunately, there is evidence to suggest that it has also accelerated and increased t...
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Olga Papadopoulou , Themistoklis Makedas , Lazaros Apostolidis , Francesco Poldi , Symeon Papadopoulos and Ioannis Kompatsiaris
The proliferation of online news, especially during the ?infodemic? that emerged along with the COVID-19 pandemic, has rapidly increased the risk of and, more importantly, the volume of online misinformation. Online Social Networks (OSNs), such as Facebo...
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Panagiotis D. Michailidis
During the last three years, numerous research papers have been reported which use social media data to explore several issues related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Bibliometric methods in this work are used to analyze 1427 peer-reviewed documents from the l...
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Raúl Rodríguez-Ferrándiz, Cande Sánchez-Olmos, Tatiana Hidalgo-Marí and Estela Saquete-Boro
The central thesis of this paper is that memetic practices can be crucial to understanding deception at present when hoaxes have increased globally due to COVID-19. Therefore, we employ existing memetic theory to describe the qualities and characteristic...
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Ashwag Alasmari, Aseel Addawood, Mariam Nouh, Wajanat Rayes and Areej Al-Wabil
COVID-19 has had broad disruptive effects on economies, healthcare systems, governments, societies, and individuals. Uncertainty concerning the scale of this crisis has given rise to countless rumors, hoaxes, and misinformation. Much of this type of conv...
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