COVID-19 and misinformation : Is censorship of social media a remedy to the spread of medical misinformation?
Niemiec, Emilia LU
(2020)
In EMBO Reports
21(11).
- Abstract
Social media companies have resorted to censorship to suppress misinformation about the COVID-19 pandemic. This is not the most prudent solution though given the uncertainties about the disease.
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- author
- Niemiec, Emilia
LU
- publishing date
- 2020-10-26
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- covid-19, misinformation
- in
- EMBO Reports
- volume
- 21
- issue
- 11
- publisher
- Springer Science and Business Media B.V.
- external identifiers
-
- scopus:85093954612
- pmid:33103289
- ISSN
- 1469-221X
- DOI
- 10.15252/embr.202051420
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- no
- additional info
- © 2020 The Author. Published under the terms of the CC BY 4.0 license.
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- 22c63564-2f6f-4828-a302-a43abafe52fc
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- 2020-10-29 09:56:54
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- 2025-11-29 16:10:04
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