Addressing Health-Related Misinformation on Social Media

In collaboration with multiple regional centers through the Harvard Global Studies and Outreach Project, this resource pack was created to support the 2021 global studies workshop for high-school educators on “Dis/Misinformation: Perspectives and Pedagogies for Educators in the Post-Truth Era.” The pack accompanied the panel of “Misinformation and Public Health,” which examined the devastating effects of dis-information on public health, or “info-demic,” that has exacerbated the COVID-19 crisis. Through a public health lens, the following…

Journalists play a vital role in communicating to the public about COVID-19 vaccines, and currently under challenging circumstances. The science surrounding COVID-19 is rapidly changing, vaccines have been developed at “warp speed” using a new approach, and misinformation is on the rise. Moreover, current and historical injustices and inequities, as well as heightened political polarization, affect what information is consumed, trusted, and acted upon. This webinar offers an opportunity for members of the media to…

This study indicated that news users across ten different European countries are quite concerned about misinformation in their information environment. Respondents were most likely to associate politicians, corporations, and foreign actors with misinformation. They perceived misinformation to be most common for topics like immigration, the economy, and the environment. This offered support for the increasingly more relative and politicized status of facts in people’s credibility perceptions. Yet, differences across sources and issues were relatively modest,…