COVID-19 Misinformation - Misinformation - Get the Facts - Research Guides at University of California Irvine

CoVid19 Real World Examples

Harmful Facebook groups continue to promote Ivermectin against FDA warning

Fact-checking via Bleach as cure for Coronavirus in Washington Post

Online misinformation via Bleach as cure for Coronavirus in Newsweek

Keep yourself updated

Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA ) - Coronavirus Rumor Control
7 ways to avoid misinformation during the coronavirus pandemic
Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Get the latest public health information on coronavirus
National Institutes of Health - COVID-19 Official Research Website
Sifting Through the Coronavirus Pandemic
Learn the skills that will make a dramatic difference in your ability to sort fact from fiction on the web (and everything in between).

The United Nations talk about the "infodemic" that coincides with diseases; a mix of information and epidemic the word implies the craze of misinformation and mischief that arise around the transmission of information at the time of need.

#SHARETHEKNOWLEDGE

If information is empowering, then disinformation is disempowering. Access to verifiable, reliable information makes the right to freedom of expression meaningful.

Coronavirus Scams

Official Websites of the United States government:

Federal Communications Commission (FCC) - Coronavirus Scams - Consumer Resources
The Federal Communications Commission is the federal agency responsible for implementing and enforcing America’s communications law and regulations.
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) - Coronavirus stimulus payment scams: What you need to know
Scammers are using stimulus payments to try and obtain personal information.
Contact the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to file a consumer complaint about scams.
The FTC works to prevent fraudulent, deceptive and unfair business practices in the marketplace and to provide information to help consumers spot, stop and avoid them.

Health and CoVid Focused Literature

Willingness to get the COVID-19 vaccine with and without emergency use authorization https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33227323/
The pandemic of social media panic travels faster than the COVID-19 outbreak https://academic.oup.com/jtm/article/27/3/taaa031/5775501
Systematic Literature Review on the Spread of Health-related Misinformation on Social Media https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2019.112552
Conspiracy theories as barriers to controlling the spread of COVID-19 in the U.S. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2020.113356
Marketplaces of Misinformation: A Study of How Vaccine Misinformation Is Legitimized on Social Media https://doi.org/10.1177%2F07439156221103860
Feeling angry: the effects of vaccine misinformation and refutational messages on negative emotions and vaccination attitude https://doi.org/10.1080/10810730.2020.1838671

Continuing the Conversation

CAL Matters - News Article - February 2023
"COVID disparities grow as California ends state of emergency"