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Health disinformation & social media: The crucial role of information hygiene in mitigating conspiracy theory and infodemics

  • Grimes D
EMBO Rep. (2020) 21(11) e51819
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Social media has been an effective vector for spreading disinformation about medicine and science. Informational hygiene can reduce the severity of falsehoods about health.

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Grimes, D. R. (2020). Health disinformation & social media: The crucial role of information hygiene in mitigating conspiracy theory and infodemics. EMBO Rep., 21(11), e51819.

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