[PDF][PDF] Public health and online misinformation: challenges and recommendations

B Swire-Thompson, D Lazer - Annu Rev Public Health, 2020 - ssphplus.ch
The internet has become a popular resource to learn about health and to investigate one's
own health condition. However, given the large amount of inaccurate information online …

Sedentary behavior and public health: integrating the evidence and identifying potential solutions

N Owen, GN Healy, PC Dempsey… - Annual review of …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Timely implementation of principles of evidence-based public health (EBPH) is critical for
bridging the gap between discovery of new knowledge and its application. Public health …

Misinformation, disinformation, and online propaganda

AM Guess, BA Lyons - Social media and democracy: The state of …, 2020 - books.google.com
Not long ago, the rise of social media inspired great optimism about its potential for flattening
access to economic and political opportunity, enabling collective action, and facilitating new …

Seeing is believing: Is video modality more powerful in spreading fake news via online messaging apps?

SS Sundar, MD Molina, E Cho - Journal of Computer-Mediated …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
False rumors on WhatsApp, the world's largest messaging app, have led to mob lynching in
India and other countries. Doctored videos sent over the platform have elicited visceral …

Dysfunctional information sharing on WhatsApp and Facebook: The role of political talk, cross-cutting exposure and social corrections

P Rossini, J Stromer-Galley, EA Baptista… - New media & …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
In this study, we investigate dysfunctional information sharing on WhatsApp and Facebook,
focusing on two explanatory variables—frequency of political talk and cross-cutting …

Empowering users to respond to misinformation about Covid-19

EK Vraga, M Tully, L Bode - Media and Communication, 2020 - ssoar.info
The World Health Organization has declared that misinformation shared on social media
about Covid-19 is an" infodemic" that must be fought alongside the pandemic itself. We …

Teens' motivations to spread fake news on WhatsApp

P Herrero-Diz, J Conde-Jiménez… - Social Media+ …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Younger people are exposed to misinformation that circulates rapidly on their mobile
devices through instant messaging applications such as WhatsApp. Under the guise of …

The personal is the political? What do Whatsapp users share and how it matters for news knowledge, polarization and participation in Chile

S Valenzuela, I Bachmann… - Digital Journalism in Latin …, 2023 - taylorfrancis.com
Mobile instant messaging services (MIMs) are important gateways to news exposure and
political conversations. Nevertheless, we still know little about the specific uses and …

WhatsApp and political instability in Brazil: targeted messages and political radicalisation

R Evangelista, F Bruno - Internet policy review, 2019 - econstor.eu
In the 2018 presidential election, Brazil elected a fringe congressman, Jair Bolsonaro,
despite his radical rhetoric that would suffice to shake the public image of any candidate in …

On the globalization of the QAnon conspiracy theory through Telegram

M Hoseini, P Melo, F Benevenuto, A Feldmann… - Proceedings of the 15th …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
QAnon is a far-right conspiracy theory that has implications in the real world, with supporters
of the theory participating in real-world violent acts like the US capitol attack in 2021. At the …