COVID-19 Related Misinformation on Social Media: A Qualitative Study from Iran (Preprint)
Journal of Medical Internet Research2020
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Abstract
Background: During outbreaks of diseases a great amount of health threatening misinformation is produced and released.In the web-2 era much of this misinformation is disseminated via social media where information could spread easily and quickly.Monitoring social media content provides crucial insights for health managers to manage the crisis.Objective: Given the misinformation surrounding COVID-19 outbreak, this study was aimed to analyze contents of the most commonly used social networks in Iran that is among the affected countries.
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