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Behav Sci (Basel)
February 2024
European Alliance for Medical and Biological Engineering and Science, 3001 Leuven, Belgium.
The COVID-19 pandemic, a period of great turmoil, was coupled with the emergence of an "infodemic", a state when the public was bombarded with vast amounts of unverified information from dubious sources that led to a chaotic information landscape. The excessive flow of messages to citizens, combined with the justified fear and uncertainty imposed by the unknown virus, cast a shadow on the credibility of even well-intentioned sources and affected the emotional state of the public. Several studies highlighted the mental toll this environment took on citizens by analyzing their discourse on online social networks (OSNs).
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April 2019
Clinical Genetics Department, Guy's & St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK.
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