AJPH Special Issue on Health Misinformation on Social Media

Special Issue on Health Misinformation on Social Media in American Journal of Public Health

Supplement 3, p268-355
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Guest Editors: Sylvia Chou and Anna Gaysynsky

Articles

• Tackling Online Misinformation: A Critical Component of Effective Public Health Response in the 21st Century
  Howard A. Zucker

• A Prologue to the Special Issue: Health Misinformation on Social Media
  Wen-Ying Sylvia Chou and Anna Gaysynsky

• Where We Go From Here: Health Misinformation on Social Media
  Wen-Ying Sylvia Chou, Anna Gaysynsky, and Joseph N. Capella

• Who Is Susceptible to Online Health Misinformation? 
  Laura D. Scherer and Gordon Pennycook

• Correction as a Solution for Health Misinformation on Social Media
  Emily K. Vraga and Leticia Bode

• Misinformation About Commercial Tobacco Products on Social Media-Implications and Research Opportunities for Reducing Tobacco-Related Health Disparities
  Andy S.L. Tan and Cabral A. Bigman

• Using a Global Pandemic as a Teachable Moment to Promote Vaccine Literacy and Build Resilience to Misinformation
  Robin C. Vanderpool, Anna Gaysynsky, and Wen-Ying Sylvia Chou

• Concrete Recommendations for Cutting Through Misinformation During the COVID-19 Pandemic
  Joan Donovan

• Roles for Health Care Professionals in Addressing Patient-Held Misinformation Beyond Fact Correction
  Brian G. Southwell, Jamie L. Wood, and Ann Marie Navar

• Ethical Considerations for Digitally Targeted Public Health Interventions
  Daniel Susser 

• Social Media and Cancer Misinformation: Additional Platforms to Explore
  Eric R. Walsh-Buhi 

• Crowdfunding Cannabidiol (CBD) for Cancer: Hype and Misinformation on GoFundMe
  Marco Zenone, Jeremy Snyder, and Timothy Caulfield

• Breast Cancer Prevention and Treatment: Misinformation on Pinterest, 2018
  Tamar Wilner and Avery Holton 

• HPV Vaccine Searches on Pinterest: Before and After Pinterest's Actions to Moderate Content
  Jeanine P.D. Guidry, Emily K. Vraga, Linnea I. Laestadius, Carrie A. Miller, Aurora Occa, Xiaoli Nan, Hannah M. Ming, Yan Qin, Bernard F. Fuemmeler, and Kellie E. Carlyle

• Facebook Pages, the "Disneyland" Measles Outbreak, and Promotion of Vaccine Refusal as a Civil Right, 2009-2019
  David A. Broniatowski, Amelia M. Jamison, Neil F. Johnson, Nicolás Velasquez, Rhys Leahy, Nicholas Johnson Restrepo, Mark Dredze, and Sandra C. Quinn

• Limited Role of Bots in Spreading Vaccine-Critical Information Among Active Twitter Users in the United States: 2017-2019
  Adam G. Dunn, Didi Surian, Jason Dalmazzo, Dana Rezazadegan, Maryke Steffens, Amalie Dyda, Julie Leask, Enrico Coiera, Aditi Dey, and Kenneth D. Mandl

• Content Themes and Influential Voices Within Vaccine Opposition on Twitter, 2019
  Erika Bonnevie, Jaclyn Goldbarg, Allison K. Gallegos-Jeffrey, Sarah D. Rosenberg, Ellen Wartella, and Joe Smyser

• Adapting and Extending a Typology to Identify Vaccine Misinformation on Twitter
  Amelia Jamison, David A. Broniatowski, Michael C. Smith, Kajal S. Parikh, Adeena Malik, Mark Dredze, and Sandra C. Quinn

• Contrasting Misinformation and Real-Information Dissemination Network Structures on Social Media During a Health Emergency
  Lida Safarnejad, Qian Xu, Yaorong Ge, Siddharth Krishnan, Arunkumar Bagarvathi, and Shi Chen

• Twitter Communication During an Outbreak of Hepatitis A in San Diego, 2016-2018
  Eyal Oren, Lourdes Martinez, R. Eliza Hensley, Purva Jain, Taufa Ahmed, Intan Purnajo, Atsushi Nara, and Ming-Hsiang Tsou