Rationale Health misinformation poses a significant threat to public health. Understanding
why people believe health misinformation and who is at risk is crucial for developing …

Governments, public health authorities, and social media platforms have employed various
measures to counter misinformation that emerged during the COVID-19 pandemic. The …

Background Chatbots have become a promising tool to support public health initiatives.
Despite their potential, little research has examined how individuals interacted with chatbots …

Despite growing concerns and rapidly expanding research about health misinformation,
answers to some fundamental questions remain unclear. Among the open questions are the …

Conspiracy Theories in the Time of Covid-19 provides a wide-ranging analysis of the
emergence and development of conspiracy theories during the Covid-19 pandemic, with a …

This study analyzes how vaccine-opposed users on Instagram share anti-vaccine content
despite facing growing moderation attempts by the platform. Through a thematic analysis of …

Background Social media platforms like Twitter provide important insights into the public's
perceptions of global outbreaks like monkeypox. By analyzing tweets, we aimed to identify …

Vaccination hesitancy (VH) is an important public health issue. The determinants of parental
decisions on whether to vaccinate their children are multidimensional and need to be …

Proprietary public APIs play a crucial and growing role as research tools among social
scientists. Among such APIs, Google's machine learning-based Perspective API is …

The COVID-19 pandemic, surprised many through its impact on the food systems, resulting
in collapses in the food production value chains and in the integrated pest disease …