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Sunshine (she/her)@lemmy.ca to Public Health@mander.xyzEnglish · 7 months ago

Social Media ‘Super-Spreaders’ Of Health Misinformation Put Millions At Risk, Says Report

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Sunshine (she/her)@lemmy.ca to Public Health@mander.xyzEnglish · 7 months ago
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Social Media 'Super-Spreaders' Of Health Misinformation Put Millions At Risk, Says Report
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A new report has identified a group of 53 digital “super-spreaders” sharing health misinformation to millions of social media users
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    The report is a 35MB pdf in the style of a 46 page glossy brochure. It’s kind of interesting. They used (abused? Overused?) language models for sentiment analysis of a bunch of media influencers and clustered them into 3 profiles (“Doc”, “Rebel”, and “Hustler”). They didn’t identify the 53 underlying accounts, oops. Anyway, it’s linked from here:

    https://rootedresearch.co/publications/nutrition-misinformation-digital-age/

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