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Early Results in Infodemiology and Infoveillance (156) Medicine 2.0: Social Media, Open, Participatory, Collaborative Medicine (2655) Infodemiology and Infoveillance (1977) Quality/Credibility of eHealth Information and Trust Issues (932) Infoveillance, Infodemiology, Digital Disease Surveillance, Infodemic Management (1395) Cancer Epidemiology, Cancer Surveillance and Infodemiology (172)

Published on in Vol 7 (2023)

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/49452, first published .
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Fact-Checking Cancer Information on Social Media in Japan: Retrospective Study Using Twitter

Fact-Checking Cancer Information on Social Media in Japan: Retrospective Study Using Twitter

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Nari Kureyama1, 2 Author Orcid Image ;   Mitsuo Terada1 Author Orcid Image ;   Maho Kusudo1, 2 Author Orcid Image ;   Kazuki Nozawa2 Author Orcid Image ;   Yumi Wanifuchi-Endo1 Author Orcid Image ;   Takashi Fujita1 Author Orcid Image ;   Tomoko Asano1 Author Orcid Image ;   Akiko Kato1 Author Orcid Image ;   Makiko Mori1 Author Orcid Image ;   Nanae Horisawa1 Author Orcid Image ;   Tatsuya Toyama1 Author Orcid Image
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