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How to Debunk Misinformation about COVID, Vaccines and Masks by Kathleen HallJamieson, Director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania and co-founder of FactCheck.org, Scientific American, April 2021 |
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Based on study of antivax Twitter users, The anti-vaccination infodemic on social media: A behavioral analysis supports polices aimed “at halting the circulation of false information about vaccines by targeting the anti-vaccination community on Twitter” and proposes a “communication strategy of health organizations” involving development of “a community of engaged influencers,” in PLoS One, March 2021 |
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25 Days That Changed the World: How Covid-19 Slipped China’s Grasp draws on “Chinese government documents, internal sources, interviews, research papers and books, including neglected or censored public accounts,” to report how the initial COVID-19 outbreak was mishandled and how the public—in China and globally—were misinformed, from The New York Times, December 31, 2020 |
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In Listen: Misinformation Mailbag—How do you talk with a loved one who believes pandemic conspiracy theories? writer James Hamblin and Social Distance podcast producer Katherine Wells, from The Atlantic discuss pandemic misinformation and how to address it, December 6, 2020 |
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Retraction watch is maintaining a list of coronavirus-related papers that have been retracted. The Scientific Literature’s Own Pandemic speculates about why there have been multiple scientific papers published and subsequently retracted or called into question since the beginning of the pandemic, in Translational Medicine, November 2, 2020 |
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Tribal Truce — How Can We Bridge the Partisan Divide and Conquer Covid? by Lisa Rosenbaum offers a physician’s perspective in NEJM, October 22, 2020 |
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The Epic Battle against Coronavirus Misinformation and Conspiracy Theories, a news report from Nature, May 27, 2020 |
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Cognitive attraction and online misinformation, by Alberto Acerbi, finds that misinformation spreads effectively due to its ability to appeal to cognitive preferences without being constrained by adherence to truth, February 19, 2019 |
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Apply Federal Research Rules on Deception to Misleading Health Information: An Example on Smokeless Tobacco and Cigarettes contains ethical and regulatory lessons for addressing COVID-19 misinformation, 2003 |
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In April, the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism published a fact sheet based on the analysis of 225 pieces of misinformation rated false or misleading by fact-checkers and published in English January – March 2020. In Types, Sources, and Claims of COVID-19 Misinformation, the investigators report that “rather than being completely fabricated, much of the misinformation … involves various forms of reconfiguration where existing and often true information is spun, twisted, recontextualized, or reworked. Judging from the social media data collected, reconfigured content saw higher engagement than content that was wholly fabricated” |
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The World Health Organization published Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Advice for the Public: Myth Busters on May 26, 2020 |
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With co-authors, Ron Carico (formerly of the University of Pittsburgh) published Community Pharmacists and Communication in the Time of COVID-19: Applying the Health Belief Model “to explain how community pharmacists can use the constructs of the HBM as a communication guide to move patients toward behaviors that will limit the spread of COVID-19 … [particularly] patients who may present with anxiety, uncertainty, skepticism, or apprehension regarding COVID-19 mitigation behaviors.” “The HBM was originally developed to study why patients may not seek screening for tuberculosis, and is one of the most prominent public health frameworks for understanding why individuals may or may not act in the face of a threat to personal or community health” |
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In this ~20 minute audio interview, Finding Reliable Information about Covid-19, NEJM editors discuss trustworthy sources of COVID-19 information, May 14, 2020 |
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The Prophecies of Q: American conspiracy theories are entering a dangerous new phase by Adrienne LaFrance in The Atlantic on QAnon, which is the source of the viral “Pandemic” video that is spreading misinformation about COVID-19, June 2020 issue |
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How the ‘Plandemic’ Movie and Its Falsehoods Spread Widely Online, The New York Times presents this analysis of how the hoax video “Plandemic” entered the mainstream before it was taken down by YouTube and Facebook, May 21, 2020 |
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Published on April 30, 2020, The Coronavirus Conspiracy Boom, in The Atlantic found “Nearly a third of the people we polled believe that the virus was manufactured on purpose,” and asks “Why?” |
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Suggestions for combatting misinformation: If Someone Shares the ‘Plandemic’ Video, How Should You Respond?, May 9, 2020 |
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‘How Could the CDC Make That Mistake?’—On May 21, 2020, The Atlantic reports that “the government’s disease-fighting agency is conflating viral and antibody tests, compromising a few crucial metrics that governors depend on to reopen their economies. Pennsylvania, Georgia, Texas, and other states are doing the same” |