Automatically Appraising the Credibility of Vaccine-Related Web Pages Shared on Social Media: A Twitter Surveillance Study.

Journal: Journal of medical Internet research
Published Date: Nov 4, 2019

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Tools used to appraise the credibility of health information are time-consuming to apply and require context-specific expertise, limiting their use for quickly identifying and mitigating the spread of misinformation as it emerges.

Authors

  • Zubair Shah
    College of Science and Engineering, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Doha, Qatar.
  • Didi Surian
    Centre for Health Informatics, Australian Institute of Health Innovation, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia.
  • Amalie Dyda
    Centre for Health Informatics, Australian Institute of Health Innovation, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia.
  • Enrico Coiera
    1Australian Institute of Health Innovation, Macquarie University, Level 6 75 Talavera Rd, Sydney, NSW 2109 Australia.
  • Kenneth D Mandl
    Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
  • Adam G Dunn
    Centre for Health Informatics, Australian Institute of Health Innovation, Macquarie University, NSW, Australia.

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