The impact of online health misinformation on the public

Author Identifier

Cheuk Hang Au: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2121-8573

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Publication Title

Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing

Volume

525 LNBIP

First Page

25

Last Page

32

Publisher

Springer

School

School of Business and Law

RAS ID

77621

Comments

Chen, C. F., Au, C. H., & Ho, K. K. (2023, December). The impact of online health misinformation on the public. In Workshop on e-Business (pp. 25-32). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-74437-2_3

Abstract

Online health misinformation has become a more significant concern in recent years, especially since the COVID-19 pandemic. This has led to a pressing need to reduce its negative impact, such as decreasing trust and readership on online media and increased likelihood of social instability during the pandemic. Focusing on healthcare misinformation, we propose a theoretical model that explains the internal and external factors that influence the ability to distinguish healthcare misinformation. This model will be tested in future research, and it is hoped that we can advance theoretical understanding of misinformation and provide practical implications for both online media outlets and governments.

DOI

10.1007/978-3-031-74437-2_3

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