Publications by authors named "Alexander Pleijter"

A lot of medical misinformation circulates on the Internet - especially social media. During the corona crisis, this became an acute and prominent problem. Countering medical misinformation can be done with debunking (refuting misinformation with fact checks) and prebunking (warning people about misinformation and teaching them to recognize it).

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Commercially motivated junk news-i.e. money-driven, highly shareable clickbait with low journalistic production standards-constitutes a vast and largely unexplored news media ecosystem.

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