论文标题
社交媒体和健康误导期间美国共同危机
Social Media and Health Misinformation during the US COVID Crisis
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论文摘要
在社交媒体上，人们发现健康错误的信息是普遍存在的，尤其是在科学信息有限的新公共卫生危机中。但是，社交媒体也可以在限制和反驳健康错误信息中发挥作用。该数据备忘录利用作为案例研究的美国总统唐纳德·特朗普（Donald Trump）对紫外线和基于消毒剂的治疗方法的承诺和力量的有争议的评论，研究了如何在Twitter上讨论和回应这些评论。我们发现，这些评论属于既定的政治党派叙事，并在随后的日子里占据了对政治和共同的讨论。评论的争论比支持更为普遍。支持者根据现有的特朗普叙述攻击了媒体报道。参赛者以幽默做出回应，并分享了谴责评论的主流媒体报道。这些做法将通过重复加强原始的错误信息，并为那些可能相信他们的人成功驳斥了成功的驳斥。这项研究为我们对Covid围绕的信息环境的理解增加了急需的知识，并证明，尽管呼吁在这场公共卫生危机中进行健康信息的非政治化，但在很大程度上将其作为分裂，两极分化的党派行动的政治问题。
Health misinformation has been found to be prevalent on social media, particularly in new public health crises in which there is limited scientific information. However, social media can also play a role in limiting and refuting health misinformation. Using as a case study US President Donald Trump's controversial comments about the promise and power of UV light- and disinfectant-based treatments, this data memo examines how these comments were discussed and responded to on Twitter. We find that these comments fell into established politically partisan narratives and dominated discussion of both politics and COVID in the days following. Contestation of the comments was much more prevalent than support. Supporters attacked media coverage in line with existing Trump narratives. Contesters responded with humour and shared mainstream media coverage condemning the comments. These practices would have strengthened the original misinformation through repetition and done little to construct a successful refutation for those who might have believed them. This research adds much-needed knowledge to our understanding of the information environment surrounding COVID and demonstrates that, despite calls for the depoliticization of health information in this public health crisis, this is largely being approached as a political issue along divisive, polarised, partisan lines.
