posted by mike kraft
on Thu, 2023-08-17 11:22
Misinformation issue: Report spotlights 52 US doctors who posted potentially harmful COVID misinformation online
Two new studies describe a couple sources of the COVID-19 "infodemic" on social media: US physicians and proponents and practitioners of "doing your own research."
A mixed-methods study published yesterday in JAMA Network Open finds that 52 physicians practicing in 28 different specialties across the United States propagated COVID-19 misinformation on vaccines, masks, and conspiracy theories on social media and other online platforms from January 2021 to December 2022.
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