The spread of medical fake news in social media–the pilot quantitative study
PM Waszak, W Kasprzycka-Waszak… - Health policy and …, 2018 - Elsevier
Objectives Fake news: misinformation and falsehood of health news in social media
constitute a potential threat to the public health, but the scope of this issue remains unclear.
Our pilot study is an initial attempt to measure a number of the top shared health
misinformation stories in the Polish language social media. Methods Using the BuzzSumo
Application, a range of the top shared health web links in the Polish language social media
was assessed during the period between 2012 and 2017. We used the following keywords …
constitute a potential threat to the public health, but the scope of this issue remains unclear.
Our pilot study is an initial attempt to measure a number of the top shared health
misinformation stories in the Polish language social media. Methods Using the BuzzSumo
Application, a range of the top shared health web links in the Polish language social media
was assessed during the period between 2012 and 2017. We used the following keywords …