{"id":2294,"date":"2024-03-16T08:02:50","date_gmt":"2024-03-16T09:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=2294"},"modified":"2024-03-16T09:36:33","modified_gmt":"2024-03-16T09:36:33","slug":"how-to-recognize-health-misinformation-on-social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=2294","title":{"rendered":"How To Recognize Health Misinformation on Social Media"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Experts offer tips for combating false medical claims in your own circles.<\/p>\n

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The Supreme Court will hear arguments on Monday in a<\/a> case that involves the Biden administration\u2019s<\/a> efforts to communicate with social media sites about posts officials believed made false or misleading claims about Covid-19 vaccines and the pandemic. While the case primarily focuses on a debate around free speech, it also spotlights the potential harms of medical misinformation \u2014 which experts say has become increasingly complex and difficult to identify.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s all changing really fast, and it\u2019s even harder for the average person to filter out,\u201d said Dr. Anish Agarwal, an emergency physician in Philadelphia.<\/p>\n

Health hacks not<\/a> backed<\/a> by science<\/a> have spread widely on social media platforms. <\/strong>The same kinds of conspiracy theories that helped to fuel vaccine hesitancy during the Covid-19 pandemic are now undermining trust in vaccines against other <\/strong>diseases, including measles, as more people have lost con<\/a>fidence<\/a> in public health experts and institutions. And rapid developments in artificial intelligence have made it even harder for people to tell what\u2019s true and what\u2019s false online. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re understanding more that it\u2019s not just a poisoned stream of information that people are getting, but a feedback loop where we have loss of trust, and we have misinformation, and the misinformation can lead to loss of trust,\u201d said Tara Kirk Sell, a senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Here\u2019s how to recognize and respond to misleading health claims online.<\/p>\n