Not just conspiracy theories: Vaccine opponents and proponents add to the COVID-19 'infodemic' on Twitter.
Not just conspiracy theories: Vaccine opponents and proponents add to the COVID-19 'infodemic' on Twitter.
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DOI：
10.37016/mr-2020-38
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发表时间：
2020-09
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通讯作者：
Quinn SC
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作者：
Jamison AM;Broniatowski DA;Dredze M;Sangraula A;Smith MC;Quinn SC
2020 年 2 月，世界卫生组织宣布出现“信息流行病”（准确和不准确的健康信息泛滥），伴随着 COVID-19 的全球大流行，成为有效健康沟通的重大挑战。我们评估了 Twitter 上最活跃的疫苗账户的内容，以了解现有的在线社区如何在大流行的早期阶段对“信息流行病”做出了贡献。虽然我们预计疫苗反对者会分享有关 COVID-19 的误导性信息，但我们也发现疫苗支持者也无法避免传播不太可靠的说法。在这两个群体中，最大的讨论主题都是将 COVID-19 与季节性流感等其他疾病进行比较，通常淡化了新型冠状病毒的严重性。在考虑“信息流行病”的范围时，研究人员和健康传播者必须不仅仅关注已知的不良行为者和最恶劣的错误信息类型，还要仔细审查公众可能在网上遇到的来自可靠和不可靠来源的全方位信息。
In February 2020, the World Health Organization announced an ‘infodemic’ -- a deluge of both accurate and inaccurate health information -- that accompanied the global pandemic of COVID-19 as a major challenge to effective health communication. We assessed content from the most active vaccine accounts on Twitter to understand how existing online communities contributed to the ‘infodemic’ during the early stages of the pandemic. While we expected vaccine opponents to share misleading information about COVID-19, we also found vaccine proponents were not immune to spreading less reliable claims. In both groups, the single largest topic of discussion consisted of narratives comparing COVID-19 to other diseases like seasonal influenza, often downplaying the severity of the novel coronavirus. When considering the scope of the ‘infodemic,’ researchers and health communicators must move beyond focusing on known bad actors and the most egregious types of misinformation to scrutinize the full spectrum of information -- from both reliable and unreliable sources -- that the public is likely to encounter online.