Fake news and dental education

Silva, Marco Antonio Dias da; Walmsley, Anthony D.

doi:10.1038/s41415-019-0079-z

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“…To let the public know the latest information related to the epidemic in time is not only an important means to reduce the spread of the virus in the medical perspective, but also the main method to prevent Internet public opinion. In public health emergencies, most of the public access to health information through social media platform ( Dias da Silva & Walmsley, 2019 ). The latest information may directly affect their life and work arrangements.…”

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Multi-stage Internet public opinion risk grading analysis of public health emergencies: An empirical study on Microblog in COVID-19

Liu

et al. 2022

Information Processing & Management

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In the period of Corona Virus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), millions of people participate in the discussion of COVID-19 on the Internet, which can easily trigger public opinion and threaten social stability. This paper creatively proposes a multi-stage risk grading model of Internet public opinion for public health emergencies. On the basis of general public opinion risk grading analysis, the model continuously pays attention to the risk level of Internet public opinion based on the time scale of regular or major information updates. This model combines Analytic Hierarchy Process Sort II (AHPSort II) and Swing Weighting (SW) methods and proposes a new Multi-Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) method – AHPSort II-SW. Intuitionistic fuzzy number and linguistic fuzzy number are introduced into the model to evaluate the criteria that cannot be quantified. The multi-stage model is tested using more than 2,000 textual data about COVID-19 collected from Microblog, a leading social media platform in China. Seven public opinion risk assessments were conducted from January 23 to April 8, 2020. The empirical results show that in the early COVID-19 outbreak, the risk of public opinion is more serious on macroscopic view. In details, the risk of public opinion decreases slowly with time, but the emergence of important events may still increase the risk of public opinion. The analysis results are in line with the actual situation and verify the effectiveness of the method. Comparative analysis indicates the improved method is proved to be superior and effective, sensitivity analysis confirms its stability. Finally, management suggestions was provided, this study contributes to the literature on public opinion risk assessment and provides implications for practice.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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Multi-stage Internet public opinion risk grading analysis of public health emergencies: An empirical study on Microblog in COVID-19

Liu

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Information Processing & Management

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“…Timestamps organised according to subjects will increase students' engagement in your video and will give teachers the chance of knowing what their students' difficulties are. 8,[39][40][41][42] Accepting that students will access the Internet for content, dental schools should provide details on how to critically appraise and incorporate online teaching materials into their learning needs and differentiate facts and evidence-based information from just opinions or non-evidencebased content 13 As in any study, there were some limitations in conducting this international research, which needs to be taken into account when evaluating these results. For example, this study used selfreported data.…”

Section: Ways Forwardmentioning

confidence: 99%

Online videos: The hidden curriculum

Silva

Pereira

Vital

et al. 2022

Eur J Dental Education

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“…On the other hand, social media does not filter false information and thus allows for the spread of "fake medical news" [22,23]. For example, many influencers share recipes for homemade teeth whitening pastes without any evidence of their effectiveness [24]. Healthcare professionals should act to counter disinformation by sharing evidence-based facts through social media platforms [25].…”

Section: Social Media As An Educational Toolmentioning

confidence: 99%