Building trust while influencing online COVID-19 content in the social media world
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With more than two million cases globally, the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has resulted in unprecedented disruption to human society. Leaders from around the world have escalated from states of reluctant acceptance to states of emergency. Unlike historical pandemics, such as the 1918 H1N1 pandemic, COVID-19 is spreading across a highly connected world, in which virtually all individuals are linked to each other through the mobile phone in their pockets. Because of strict physical distancing measures, people are heavily reliant on maintaining connectivity using global digital social networks, such as Facebook or Twitter, to facilitate human interaction and information sharing about the virus.
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- Authors
- Limaye, R. J., Sauer, M., Ali, J., Bernstein, J., Wahl, B., Barnhill, A., & Labrique, A.
- Affiliations
- Johns Hopkins University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Limaye, Rupali Jayant
- ORCID
- Venue
- The Lancet Digital Health
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2020-06
- Volume
- 2
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- e277-e278
- ISSN
- 2589-7500 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC7173823
- OpenAlex
- W3017145058
- Cited by
- 357
- References
- 1
- Citations by year
- 2026: 7 · 2025: 21 · 2024: 29 · 2023: 61 · 2022: 69 · 2021: 115 · 2020: 53 · 2019: 2
- FWCI
- 89.39
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- The Lancet Digital Health (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Communication › Communication and COVID-19 Impact
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Misinformation and Its Impacts
- Social Sciences › Health › Social Media in Health Education
- Keywords
- COVID-19 pandemic, social media, online health information, trust, misinformation, health communication, pandemic communication
- MeSH terms
- COVID-19, Communication, Humans, Trust, Social Media
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