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Authors’ Response to Peer Reviews of “Are We Sure We Fully Understand What an Infodemic Is? A Global Perspective on Infodemiological Problems”

Authors’ Response to Peer Reviews of “Are We Sure We Fully Understand What an Infodemic Is? A Global Perspective on Infodemiological Problems”

This sentence is imprecise because information disorder also includes malinformation, fake news, and conspiracy theory. The background adopted by the authors to reflect on the presented problems can be compromised by such misconceptions. Answer: Dear reviewer, thank you for pointing out this shortcoming. We clarified this point in the introductory section on infodemiology. It was specified to the reader that the definition proposed by O'Hair [4] includes these phenomena.

Alessandro Rovetta, Lucia Castaldo

JMIRx Med 2022;3(3):e40636

Peer Review of "Are We Sure We Fully Understand What an Infodemic Is? A Global Perspective on Infodemiological Problems"

Peer Review of "Are We Sure We Fully Understand What an Infodemic Is? A Global Perspective on Infodemiological Problems"

This sentence is imprecise because information disorder also includes malinformation, fake news, and conspiracy theory. The background adopted by the authors to reflect on the presented problems can be compromised by such misconceptions. I recommend that the authors concentrate their efforts on a specific problem, presenting a deep argumentation about the mechanisms that contribute to the success of information disorder during the pandemic.

Anonymous

JMIRx Med 2022;3(3):e40303

Are We Sure We Fully Understand What an Infodemic Is? A Global Perspective on Infodemiological Problems

Are We Sure We Fully Understand What an Infodemic Is? A Global Perspective on Infodemiological Problems

Conspiracy thinking originates from questionings of various kinds, including epistemic, existential, and social [25]. There is evidence that these attitudes are the aberration of mechanisms useful for the human race’s survival, such as pattern recognition, agency detection, threat management, alliance, and dangerous coalitions detection [26].

Alessandro Rovetta, Lucia Castaldo

JMIRx Med 2022;3(3):e36510

Discussions and Misinformation About Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems and COVID-19: Qualitative Analysis of Twitter Content

Discussions and Misinformation About Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems and COVID-19: Qualitative Analysis of Twitter Content

Misinformation about COVID-19 on Twitter has been found to spread virally within a matter of days, often fueling conspiracy theories [14]. Twitter is an ideal platform with which to conduct research on public opinion, conversations, and misinformation related to current health topics, including COVID-19 and ENDS.

Jaime E Sidani, Beth Hoffman, Jason B Colditz, Riley Wolynn, Lily Hsiao, Kar-Hai Chu, Jason J Rose, Ariel Shensa, Esa Davis, Brian Primack

JMIR Form Res 2022;6(4):e26335

COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy on Social Media: Building a Public Twitter Data Set of Antivaccine Content, Vaccine Misinformation, and Conspiracies

COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy on Social Media: Building a Public Twitter Data Set of Antivaccine Content, Vaccine Misinformation, and Conspiracies

A large set of common hashtags is related to some debunked conspiracy theories that claim there is a global plot by rich individuals to reduce the world population, often expressed through hashtags such as #depopulation, #billgatesbioterrorist and #arrestbillgates. Another set of very frequent hashtags appears benign on the surface.

Goran Muric, Yusong Wu, Emilio Ferrara

JMIR Public Health Surveill 2021;7(11):e30642

“Thought I’d Share First” and Other Conspiracy Theory Tweets from the COVID-19 Infodemic: Exploratory Study

“Thought I’d Share First” and Other Conspiracy Theory Tweets from the COVID-19 Infodemic: Exploratory Study

We then used regular expressions to create four conspiracy theory data sets (Filter 2) and machine learning classifiers to identify misinformation tweets within each data set (Filter 3). 5 G: conspiracy theories related to 5 G technology; CDC: US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Gates: conspiracy theories related to Bill Gates or the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Lab: conspiracy theories related to the virus being laboratory-released or human-made; Vax: conspiracy theories related to vaccines; WHO

Dax Gerts, Courtney D Shelley, Nidhi Parikh, Travis Pitts, Chrysm Watson Ross, Geoffrey Fairchild, Nidia Yadria Vaquera Chavez, Ashlynn R Daughton

JMIR Public Health Surveill 2021;7(4):e26527