#healthmisinformation — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #healthmisinformation, aggregated by home.social.
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Claims of Over One Million HIV Cases in Atlanta Debunked Amidst Viral Panic
Viral claims of over 1 million HIV cases in Atlanta are false. Health officials confirm around 1,500-1,700 new cases annually. Learn the real numbers.
#AtlantaHIV, #HIVFacts, #HealthMisinformation, #AtlantaHealth, #PublicHealth
https://newsletter.tf/atlanta-hiv-cases-rumors-debunked-real-numbers/
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Viral social media claimed over 1 million HIV cases in Atlanta, but real numbers show about 1,500-1,700 new cases yearly. This is much lower than the rumors.
#AtlantaHIV, #HIVFacts, #HealthMisinformation, #AtlantaHealth, #PublicHealth
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AI Chatbots Fall Short on Medical Guidance, Study Reveals
New study shows AI chatbots often give wrong health info. Users get no better results than with Google. What does this mean for your health?
#AIChatbotFail, #HealthMisinformation, #MedicalAI, #StudyFindings, #DigitalHealth
https://newsletter.tf/ai-chatbots-give-bad-health-advice-study/
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A new study found AI chatbots gave inaccurate health advice in nearly half of cases, presenting false claims as equal to science. This is worse than last year's findings.
#AIChatbotFail, #HealthMisinformation, #MedicalAI, #StudyFindings, #DigitalHealth
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New York Times: He Warned About the Dangers of A.I. If Only His Father Had Listened. . “Joe was making decisions based on bad information packaged with the veneer of scientific expertise. It was the kind of misinformation that was virtually impossible for a lay person to spot, even for someone like Joe, who by all accounts was an ideal user.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/04/14/new-york-times-he-warned-about-the-dangers-of-a-i-if-only-his-father-had-listened/ -
1 in 10 Zoomers are asking ChatGPT to help diagnose STDs, and doctors are alarmed
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://nerds.xyz/2026/01/gen-z-chatgpt-std-ai-diagnosis/
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University of Waterloo: Predicting disease outbreaks using social media. “Researchers at the University of Waterloo have developed a new approach that could help public health officials predict where outbreaks might occur. By analyzing social media posts, the method identifies early signs of increasing vaccine skepticism — a warning signal that could emerge before any disease begins to spread.”
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University of Waterloo: Predicting disease outbreaks using social media. “Researchers at the University of Waterloo have developed a new approach that could help public health officials predict where outbreaks might occur. By analyzing social media posts, the method identifies early signs of increasing vaccine skepticism — a warning signal that could emerge before any disease begins to spread.”
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University of Waterloo: Predicting disease outbreaks using social media. “Researchers at the University of Waterloo have developed a new approach that could help public health officials predict where outbreaks might occur. By analyzing social media posts, the method identifies early signs of increasing vaccine skepticism — a warning signal that could emerge before any disease begins to spread.”
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University of Waterloo: Predicting disease outbreaks using social media. “Researchers at the University of Waterloo have developed a new approach that could help public health officials predict where outbreaks might occur. By analyzing social media posts, the method identifies early signs of increasing vaccine skepticism — a warning signal that could emerge before any disease begins to spread.”
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University of Waterloo: Predicting disease outbreaks using social media. “Researchers at the University of Waterloo have developed a new approach that could help public health officials predict where outbreaks might occur. By analyzing social media posts, the method identifies early signs of increasing vaccine skepticism — a warning signal that could emerge before any disease begins to spread.”
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PC Magazine: Can’t Trust Chatbots Yet: Reddit’s AI Was Caught Suggesting Heroin for Pain Relief. “AI chatbots have had a long history of hallucinating, and Reddit’s version, called Answers, has now joined the list after it recommended heroin to a user seeking pain relief.”
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New free-to-download paper:
"Public health disinformation, conflict, and disease outbreaks"
https://doi.org/10.1080/16549716.2025.2562380
#OpenAccess #HealthDiplomacy #GlobalHealthDiplomacy #Health #GlobalHealth #PublicHealth #PlanetaryHealth #OneHealth #EcoHealth #Disinformation #Misinformation #HealthDisinformation #HealthMisinformation #HealthConflict #ConflictHealth -
PsyPost: New study links cognitive style to health misinformation detection. “A new study published in PLOS One sheds light on how people respond to health-related disinformation on social media. The research suggests that people who enjoy thinking critically and analytically tend to be better at identifying false or misleading content.”
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Social media nutrition misinformation fuels food-based attachments
#Health #NutritionMyths #FadDiets #FoodIdentity #Diet #DietCulture #SocialMediaInfluence #HealthMisinformation #EchoChamber #FoodChoices #WellnessTrends #SeedOils #NutritionAwareness
https://the-14.com/social-media-nutrition-misinformation-fuels-food-based-attachments/ -
Social media nutrition misinformation fuels food-based attachments
#Health #NutritionMyths #FadDiets #FoodIdentity #Diet #DietCulture #SocialMediaInfluence #HealthMisinformation #EchoChamber #FoodChoices #WellnessTrends #SeedOils #NutritionAwareness
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PsyPost: Most TikTok videos about birth control are unreliable, study finds. “A new study published in Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health suggests that popular TikTok videos about contraception are often misleading, low in quality, and rarely created by medical professionals.”
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𝗪𝗵𝗼'𝘀 𝘀𝗽𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗳𝗮𝗹𝘀𝗲 𝗰𝗹𝗮𝗶𝗺𝘀? 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗱𝗼 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘁𝘀 𝘀𝗮𝘆 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝗼𝗱𝗮𝘆'𝘀 𝗺𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗰 𝘁𝗼𝗽𝗶𝗰𝘀?
Our monthly newsletter (available in English and French) helps you track the latest misinformation trends and what scientists are really finding while keeping an eye on policy in this domain.
#ClimateMisinformation #HealthMisinformation #ScienceNewsletter #disinformation #debunk
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SF Gate: White House posts misinformation about In-N-Out menu change. “While the White House news release has since been updated, the Chronicle reported that it had linked to an X post from an In-N-Out fan account: ‘It’s official. In-N-Out will be transitioning to 100% pure beef tallow.’ In a reply to the April post, the account clarified it was an April Fools’ Day joke.”
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Syracuse University: Fact or Fiction? The ADHD Info Dilemma. “…researchers from the Department of Psychology at Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences conducted a study examining how college-aged students respond to inaccurate ADHD-related content. Their findings… revealed that exposure to ADHD misinformation on TikTok significantly reduced students’ accurate understanding […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/09/syracuse-university-fact-or-fiction-the-adhd-info-dilemma/
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The Guardian: More than half of top 100 mental health TikToks contain misinformation, study finds. “More than half of all the top trending videos offering mental health advice on TikTok contain misinformation, a Guardian investigation has found. People are increasingly turning to social media for mental health support, yet research has revealed that many influencers are peddling […]
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The Conversation: Why we fall for fake health information – and how it spreads faster than facts. “As a global health communication scholar studying the effects of media on health and development, I explore artistic and creative ways to make health information more engaging and accessible, empowering people to make informed decisions. Although there is a fire hose of health-related content […]
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World Health Organization: WHO partners with Thailand and Sri Lanka to pilot a new tool to combat and address infodemics. “The proliferation of misinformation and disinformation, coupled with the overwhelming volume of information-both online and offline, makes it difficult for people and communities to access accurate information and undermines public health efforts, eroding trust, and […]
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Search Engine Journal: Google Expands AI Overviews To Thousands More Health Queries. “Google is expanding AI overviews to ‘thousands more health topics,’ per an announcement at the company’s health-focused ‘The Check Up’ event. The event included developments spanning research, wearable technology, and medical records.”
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Yale School of Medicine: New Study Finds Online Advertising for Compounded Diabetes and Weight-Loss Drugs May Mislead Consumers. “Online advertising for compounded versions of a popular class of type 2 diabetes and weight-loss medications commonly includes practices that only partially inform or even misinform consumers, a team of Yale School of Medicine (YSM) researchers has found. The work […]
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Ars Technica: It’s remarkably easy to inject new medical misinformation into LLMs. “A new study by researchers at New York University examines how much medical information can be included in a large language model (LLM) training set before it spits out inaccurate answers. While the study doesn’t identify a lower bound, it does show that by the time misinformation accounts for 0.001 percent […]
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BBC: Influencers selling fake cures for polycystic ovary syndrome. “Medically unqualified influencers – many with more than a million followers – are exploiting the absence of an easy medical solution for PCOS by posing as experts and selling fake cures…. The BBC World Service tracked the most-watched videos with a ‘PCOS’ hashtag on TikTok and Instagram during the month of September and […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2024/12/07/bbc-influencers-selling-fake-cures-for-polycystic-ovary-syndrome/
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RFK Jr. Backed by Group Connected to Top MAGA Republicans
https://www.newsweek.com/rfk-jr-backed-group-connected-top-maga-republicans-1808780
#Newsweek #RFKjr #MAGARepublicans #politicalbacking #COVIDvaccine #healthmisinformation #Politics #News
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Goop, the actor’s multimillion-dollar lifestyle website, skilfully monetises the ‘cultural firestorms’ it generates.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jul/27/gwyneth-paltrow-goop
#GwynethPaltrow #Goop #Paltrow #Pseudoscience #ScientificMisinformation #HealthMisinformation
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Wrote this piece for The Conversation on Twitter lifting its ban on Covid misinformation. This is deeply concerning!
#covidmisinformation #healthmisinformation #contentmoderation #publichealth
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Musk’s Twitter abandons COVID misinfo policy, shirking “huge responsibility” - Enlarge / Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk presents a vaccine production ... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1900693 #healthmisinformation #infectiousdisease #misinformation #publichealth #vaccination #covid-19 #medicine #pandemic #science #twitter #policy #health #musk #who
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The COVID-19 misinformation crisis is just beginning, but there is hope - Enlarge / Vials of measles vaccine at the Orange County Health Department on May 6, 2019 in Orlando... more: https://arstechnica.com/?p=1675387 #healthmisinformation #complexnetworks #gaming&culture #antivaxxers #socialmedia #covid-19 #science #physics
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Fired scientist back to peddling anti-vaxx COVID-19 conspiracy theories - Enlarge / After her research career effectively ended, Dr. Judy Mikovits has re-emerged as an anti-... more: https://arstechnica.com/?p=1674127 #healthmisinformation #conspiracytheories #dr.anthonyfauci #cognitivebias #anti-vaxxer #covid-19 #fakenews #medicine #science #biology