Characteristics, Influence, Prevention, and Control Measures of the Mpox Infodemic: Scoping Review of Infodemiology Studies www.jmir.org/2024/1/e54874
Background: The mpox pandemic has caused widespread public concern around the world. The spread of misinformation through the internet and social media could lead to an infodemic that poses challenges...
From the Bluffton (Indiana) Chronicle, June 8, 1904, p.2. Turns out producing fake films of the President, and circulating them during a presidential campaign, have a much longer history in the USA than most suspect. Today's misinformation "Infodemic" isn't that new after all.
Moving to the #OneHealth#AMR World Congress, starting with combating the infodemic Not just mis/disinfo, also info gaps and anxiety, which can drive abx misuse Key is listening and building trust
The issue is that control of the information space (e.g. removing disinformation) is being treated as a "public health intervention" for the "infodemic" to stop more people being "infected". Even though removing disinformation is good, this is a bad way of framing the problem.
As I say, I’ve been guilty of some of this. I used the term “infodemic” in work around that time (indeed, in the co-authored work I did with TDP back when it was back of Te Punaha Matatini, and a book chapter on COVID-19 conspiracy theories in Aotearoa). I regret that now
C-19 and the infodemic did a number on our faculties
A critical take on the infodemic paradigm&metaphor related to resistance to Covid19 containment measures. #WickedProblems#PoliticalEpistemologywww.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The concept of the ‘infodemic’ has become a popular explanation for the rejection of anti-COVID-19 crisis governance measures. In this paper, we argue that infodemic is an inherent property of soci...
Article based on research by CyberCX on Beijing-based 'Green Cicada' AI network. Since pandemic/infodemic I've studied staggering growth of adversarial threats hitting New Zealand, extending to academia/Uni's, media, & civil society. Incl. DDoS attacks against climate change research orgs. Worrying.
A network of 5,000 accounts apparently being operated using AI has been exposed on X, formerly Twitter, with concerns the Beijing-based operation could be designed to disrupt the coming US election.
