Category: misinformation

Get Ready for Deepfakes

Artificial Intelligence, COVID-19, deep learning, deepfakes, dr fauci, fauci, Health Tech, Kim Bellard, misinformation / October 13, 2021 October 13, 2021

By KIM BELLARD The Tom Cruise TikTok deepfakes last spring didn’t spur me into writing about deepfakes, not even when Justin Bieber fell so hard for them that he challenged the deepfake to a fight. When 60 Minutes covered the topic last night though, I figured I’d best get to it before I missed this …

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As Delta surges, CMIOs’ focus on plans to provide vaccine booster shots, fight false information

booster, challenges, CMIO, COVID-19, Daily, GBMC Healthcare, Health IT, hospitals, misinformation, News, Owensboro Health, pandemic, remote patient monitoring, SYN, Top Story, Vaccine / September 7, 2021 September 7, 2021

Chief medical information officers are in a unique position to help their organizations fight the Covid-19 pandemic — from setting up IT systems to support Covid testing, care and vaccination to helping fight fast-spreading misinformation.

Study: Bots amplified pandemic misinformation on social media

Bots, COVID-19, Daily, Health Tech, JAMA Internal Medicine, misinformation, Policy, social media, SYN, Top Story / June 9, 2021 June 9, 2021

Bots may have played a significant role in circulating misinformation during the Covid-19 pandemic, according to a study published in JAMA Internal Medicine. The study found that Facebook posts in groups most affected by bots were more than twice as likely to misstate the results of a study about masks or share conspiracies.

‘This is a fight worth fighting’: Pushing back against misinformation

COVID-19, mental health, misinformation, Primary Debate Categories / February 16, 2021 February 16, 2021

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YouTube teams up with providers, healthcare groups to combat health misinformation

American Public Health Association, Cleveland Clinic, COVID-19, Daily, hesitancy, hospitals, Mayo Clinic, misinformation, News, Physicians, SYN, Top Story, Vaccine, YouTube / January 15, 2021 January 15, 2021

The video-sharing giant is partnering with providers and groups, like Mayo Clinic and the American Public Health Association, to create evidence-based health content. YouTube has also added CVS Health’s former chief community health officer to lead those efforts.

It took moms to hack the COVID quacks

covid treatment, COVID-19, misinformation, pandemic, pandemic response, Pharmacy, Primary Debate Categories / September 1, 2020 September 1, 2020

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The need for rigor: Retractions can damage public trust

COVID-19, data and science, medicine, misinformation, pandemic, Primary Debate Categories, public health, scientific journals / July 15, 2020 July 15, 2020

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