2020
DOI: 10.3390/ijerph17031066
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Information Management in Healthcare and Environment: Towards an Automatic System for Fake News Detection

Abstract: Comments and information appearing on the internet and on different social media sway opinion concerning potential remedies for diagnosing and curing diseases. In many cases, this has an impact on citizens’ health and affects medical professionals, who find themselves having to defend their diagnoses as well as the treatments they propose against ill-informed patients. The propagation of these opinions follows the same pattern as the dissemination of fake news about other important topics, such as the environm… Show more

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“…This information can undermine confidence in medical care, suggest ineffective or inadequate treatments, and even generate opinions and social behaviors that in some cases may become dangerous 2,7,15 . Understanding how fake news spreads is the first step in identifying patient information needs and developing guidelines or codes of good practice that regulate multimedia health content 2,16 . Our findings highlight the need for campaigns so that users reject false or misleading information, while promoting the dissemination of rigorous evidence‐based dermatology knowledge.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 89%
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“…This information can undermine confidence in medical care, suggest ineffective or inadequate treatments, and even generate opinions and social behaviors that in some cases may become dangerous 2,7,15 . Understanding how fake news spreads is the first step in identifying patient information needs and developing guidelines or codes of good practice that regulate multimedia health content 2,16 . Our findings highlight the need for campaigns so that users reject false or misleading information, while promoting the dissemination of rigorous evidence‐based dermatology knowledge.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 89%
“…A significant amount of commercial, biased, and imprecise dermatology content is shared on social media. This information can undermine confidence in medical care, suggest ineffective or inadequate treatments, and even generate opinions and social behaviors that in some cases may become dangerous 2,7,15 . Understanding how fake news spreads is the first step in identifying patient information needs and developing guidelines or codes of good practice that regulate multimedia health content 2,16 .…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…One study stated that other comments and information on social media influenced opinions on diagnosing and curing diseases. In many cases, this phenomenon affects medical professionals, who must defend their diagnoses and proposed treatments to patients with insufficient or inaccurate information ( Lara-Navarra et al., 2020 ).…”
Section: Literature Reviewmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…One of the problems identified from the consumer's perspective is that most of the things mentioned in the online food menus are often not available. Instead, they act as click baits designed to entice online users to continue interacting with their platform and marketing content (Lara-Navarra et al, 2020). In rare cases, some clickbait links often forward online users to pages that require them to make payments, register, or even fill in their payment details.…”
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confidence: 99%