Towards Curtailing Infodemic in the Era of COVID-19: A Contextualized Solution for Ethiopia

Belay, Elefelious Getachew; Beyene, Melkamu; Alemu, Teshome; Negash, Amanuel; Tesema, Tibebe Beshah; Mohammed, A.; Yilma, Mengistu; Tassew, Berhan; Mekonnen, Solomon

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“…Seeking to curtail the misinformation of COVID-19 related news and support reliable information dissemination, several papers used manual analysis through fact-checkers as well as consensus to verify the veracity and correctness of selected tweets and posts. This is illustrated by a use case in Ethiopia [129] analyzing Facebook and Twitter content in both English and Amharic. Similarly, in an Ebola study [130], 5% of Ebola related tweets were found by consensus to be false, while another 5% contained half-true or misinterpreted information.…”

Section: A1 Fake News Identificationmentioning

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When Infodemic Meets Epidemic: A Systematic Literature Review (Preprint)

Asaad¹,

Khaouja²,

Ghogho³

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BACKGROUND Epidemics and outbreaks present arduous challenges requiring both individual and communal efforts. Social media sites offer significant amounts of data that can be leveraged for bio-surveillance. They also provide a platform to quickly and efficiently reach a sizeable percentage of the population, hence their potential impact on various aspects of epidemic mitigation. OBJECTIVE The general objective of this systematic literature review is to provide a methodical overview of the integration of social media in different epidemic-related contexts. METHODS Three research questions were conceptualized for this review, resulting in over 10000 publications collected in the first PRISMA stage, 129 of which were selected for inclusion. A thematic method-oriented synthesis was undertaken and identified 5 main themes related to social media enabled epidemic surveillance, misinformation management, and mental health. RESULTS Findings uncover a need for more robust applications of the lessons learned from epidemic post-mortem documentation. A vast gap exists between retrospective analysis of epidemic management and result integration in prospective studies. CONCLUSIONS Harnessing the full potential of social media in epidemic related tasks requires streamlining the results of epidemic forecasting, public opinion understanding and misinformation propagation, all while keeping abreast of potential mental health implications. Pro-active prevention has thus become vital for epidemic curtailment and containment.

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confidence: 99%