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Theme Issue 2022: Social Media, Ethics, and COVID-19 Misinformation (45) JMIR Theme Issue: COVID-19 Special Issue (2510) Medicine 2.0: Social Media, Open, Participatory, Collaborative Medicine (1820) Infoveillance, Infodemiology, Digital Disease Surveillance, Infodemic Management (1098) Infodemiology and Infoveillance (1483) Information Quality in Digital Media (382) Vaccination and Immunization in the Digital Age (413)

Published on in Vol 24, No 7 (2022): July

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/37806, first published .
Impact of COVID-19 Vaccine Misinformation on Social Media Virality: Content Analysis of Message Themes and Writing Strategies

Impact of COVID-19 Vaccine Misinformation on Social Media Virality: Content Analysis of Message Themes and Writing Strategies

Impact of COVID-19 Vaccine Misinformation on Social Media Virality: Content Analysis of Message Themes and Writing Strategies

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Cindy Sing Bik Ngai1 Author Orcid Image ;   Rita Gill Singh2 Author Orcid Image ;   Le Yao1 Author Orcid Image
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