COVID-19 misinformation online and health literacy: a brief overview

S Bin Naeem, MN Kamel Boulos - International journal of environmental …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Low digital health literacy affects large percentages of populations around the world and is a
direct contributor to the spread of COVID-19-related online misinformation (together with …

Will the world ever be the same after COVID-19? Two lessons from the first global crisis of a digital age

M Fenwick, JA McCahery, EPM Vermeulen - … Business Organization Law …, 2021 - Springer
Coronavirus is the first global crisis of a digital age and the divergence in policy responses
reflects the challenge of navigating an unprecedented global situation under conditions of …

Social media, fake news, and the COVID-19 pandemic: Sketching the case of Southeast Asia

HL Dang - Advances in Southeast Asian Studies, 2021 - aseas.univie.ac.at
As a result of lockdowns across Southeast Asia, the use of all types of social media has
reached high records in the whole region. Yet, the rapid social media response manifested …

Eating garlic prevents COVID-19 infection: Detecting misinformation on the Arabic content of Twitter

S Alqurashi, B Hamoui, A Alashaikh, A Alhindi… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
The rapid growth of social media content during the current pandemic provides useful tools
for disseminating information which has also become a root for misinformation. Therefore …

Automatic detection of influential actors in disinformation networks

ST Smith, EK Kao, ED Mackin… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
The weaponization of digital communications and social media to conduct disinformation
campaigns at immense scale, speed, and reach presents new challenges to identify and …

Panic buying and fake news in urban vs. rural England: A case study of twitter during COVID-19

M Ali, LM Gomes, N Azab, JG de Moraes Souza… - … Forecasting and Social …, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper explores the potential association between the spread of fake news and the
panic buying behavior, in urban and rural UK, widely accessible on Twitter since COVID 19 …

Data-driven analytics of COVID-19 'infodemic'

M Wan, Q Su, R **ang, CR Huang - … journal of data science and analytics, 2023 - Springer
The rampant of COVID-19 infodemic has almost been simultaneous with the outbreak of the
pandemic. Many concerted efforts are made to mitigate its negative effect to information …

Fake news, real emotions: Emotion analysis of covid-19 infodemic in weibo

M Wan, Y Zhong, X Gao, SYM Lee… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The proliferation of COVID-19 fake news on social media poses a severe threat to the health
information ecosystem. We show that affective computing can make significant contributions …

Challenges in combating COVID-19 infodemic--data, tools, and ethics

K Ding, K Shu, Y Li, A Bhattacharjee, H Liu - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2020 - arxiv.org
While the COVID-19 pandemic continues its global devastation, numerous accompanying
challenges emerge. One important challenge we face is to efficiently and effectively use …

Racial Attacks during the COVID‐19 Pandemic: Politicizing an Epidemic Crisis on Longstanding Racism and Misinformation, Disinformation, and Misconception

M Chong, TJ Froehlich, K Shu - Proceedings of the Association …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The COVID‐19 pandemic crisis has affected everyone's life on a daily basis for more than a
year. However, some racial groups have experienced a double pandemic, that of COVID‐19 …