When Advocacy Obscures Accuracy Online: Digital Pandemics of Public Health Misinformation Through an Antifluoride Case Study | Zendy

Brittany Seymour | Zendy; Rebekah Getman | Zendy; Avinash Saraf | Zendy; Lily H. Zhang | Zendy; Elsbeth Kalenderian | Zendy

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When Advocacy Obscures Accuracy Online: Digital Pandemics of Public Health Misinformation Through an Antifluoride Case Study

Author(s) -

Brittany Seymour,

Rebekah Getman,

Avinash Saraf,

Lily H. Zhang,

Elsbeth Kalenderian

Publication year - 2015

Publication title -

american journal of public health

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.284

H-Index - 264

eISSN - 1541-0048

pISSN - 0090-0036

DOI - 10.2105/ajph.2014.302437

Subject(s) - misinformation , social media , sample (material) , social connectedness , public health , pandemic , psychology , social network (sociolinguistics) , diffusion of innovations , information dissemination , internet privacy , public relations , sociology , social psychology , covid-19 , political science , computer science , world wide web , medicine , social science , chemistry , nursing , disease , chromatography , pathology , infectious disease (medical specialty) , law

In an antifluoridation case study, we explored digital pandemics and the social spread of scientifically inaccurate health information across the Web, and we considered the potential health effects.

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