Misinformation and Public Health Messaging in the Early Stages of the Mpox Outbreak: Mapping the Twitter Narrative With Deep Learning

• Main Authors: Andy Edinger (Author), Danny Valdez (Author), Eric Walsh-Buhi (Author), Jennifer S Trueblood (Author), Lorenzo Lorenzo-Luaces (Author), Lauren A Rutter (Author), Johan Bollen (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: JMIR Publications, 2023-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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BackgroundShortly after the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic, an outbreak of mpox introduced another critical public health emergency. Like the COVID-19 pandemic, the mpox outbreak was characterized by a rising prevalence of public health misinformation on social media, through which many US adults re...