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Guest Editorial (21) Theme Issue: Social Media, Ethics, and COVID-19 Misinformation (31) Mass Media/Social Media Communication and Campaigns (406) Vaccination and Immunization in the Digital Age (294) JMIR Theme Issue: COVID-19 Special Issue (2238) Infectious Diseases (non-STD/STI) (1288) COVID-19 Vaccination (105) Medicine 2.0: Social Media, Open, Participatory, Collaborative Medicine (1398) Infoveillance, Infodemiology, Digital Disease Surveillance, Infodemic Management (921) Infodemiology and Infoveillance (1123)

Published on in Vol 24 , No 2 (2022) :February

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/35552, first published .
A Deadly Infodemic: Social Media and the Power of COVID-19 Misinformation

A Deadly Infodemic: Social Media and the Power of COVID-19 Misinformation

A Deadly Infodemic: Social Media and the Power of COVID-19 Misinformation

Authors of this article:

Michael A Gisondi 1 Author Orcid Image ;   Rachel Barber 2 Author Orcid Image ;   Jemery Samuel Faust 3 Author Orcid Image ;   Ali Raja 4 Author Orcid Image ;   Matthew C Strehlow 5 Author Orcid Image ;   Lauren M Westafer 6 Author Orcid Image ;   Michael Gottlieb 7 Author Orcid Image
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