[HTML][HTML] An epidemic of uncertainty: rumors, conspiracy theories and vaccine hesitancy

E Pertwee, C Simas, HJ Larson - Nature medicine, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract The COVID-19 'infodemic'continues to undermine trust in vaccination efforts aiming
to bring an end to the pandemic. However, the challenge of vaccine hesitancy is not only a …

What social media told us in the time of COVID-19: a scoping review

SF Tsao, H Chen, T Tisseverasinghe, Y Yang… - The Lancet Digital …, 2021 - thelancet.com
With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, social media has rapidly become a crucial
communication tool for information generation, dissemination, and consumption. In this …

High rates of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and its association with conspiracy beliefs: a study in Jordan and Kuwait among other Arab countries

M Sallam, D Dababseh, H Eid, K Al-Mahzoum… - Vaccines, 2021 - mdpi.com
Vaccination could be an effective strategy for slowing the spread of the current coronavirus
disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Vaccine hesitancy could pose a serious problem for …

Social media and vaccine hesitancy: new updates for the era of COVID-19 and globalized infectious diseases

N Puri, EA Coomes, H Haghbayan… - Human vaccines & …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Despite major advances in vaccination over the past century, resurgence of vaccine-
preventable illnesses has led the World Health Organization to identify vaccine hesitancy as …

Misinformation sharing and social media fatigue during COVID-19: An affordance and cognitive load perspective

AKMN Islam, S Laato, S Talukder, E Sutinen - … forecasting and social …, 2020 - Elsevier
Social media plays a significant role during pandemics such as COVID-19, as it enables
people to share news as well as personal experiences and viewpoints with one another in …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] ChatGPT output regarding compulsory vaccination and COVID-19 vaccine conspiracy: a descriptive study at the outset of a paradigm shift in online search for …

M Sallam, NA Salim, B Ala'a, M Barakat, D Fayyad… - Cureus, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background: Being on the verge of a revolutionary approach to gathering information,
ChatGPT (an artificial intelligence (AI)-based language model developed by OpenAI, and …

[HTML][HTML] COVID-19-related misinformation on social media: a systematic review

E Gabarron, SO Oyeyemi, R Wynn - Bulletin of the World Health …, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Objective To review misinformation related to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) on
social media during the first phase of the pandemic and to discuss ways of countering …

Acceptance of a Covid-19 vaccine is associated with ability to detect fake news and health literacy

I Montagni, K Ouazzani-Touhami… - Journal of public …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
ABSTRACT Background During the Covid-19 pandemic fake news has been circulating
impacting on the general population's opinion about a vaccine against the SARS-CoV-2 …

[HTML][HTML] Antecedents and consequences of COVID-19 conspiracy beliefs: A systematic review

V Van Mulukom, LJ Pummerer, S Alper, H Bai… - Social Science & …, 2022 - Elsevier
Rationale Belief in COVID-19 conspiracy theories can have severe consequences; it is
therefore crucial to understand this phenomenon, in its similarities with general conspiracy …