Talk:Infodemic

Notability

I'm an anonymous user who cites the use of this word by th United Nations. I don't want to remove the notice seeking better sources as anonymous but I think the notice should be removed. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.40.193.119 (talk) 17:16, 3 January 2021 (UTC)

I have to agree with the above. There is a lot of mostly health related information using the term "infodemic", which is mainly related to COVID-19, natually. And this is in legitimate publications. (AbrewaAccraLady (talk) 13:40, 24 February 2021 (UTC))

I have added a few sources. Importantly, a UN report and a peer-reviewed journal both use the term "Infodemic" (The peer-reviewed journal uses it in the title). I am removing the notice based on these two sources. "Novel Coronavirus(2019-nCoV) Situation Report - 13" (PDF). World Health Organization. 2 February 2020. Retrieved 30 July 2022. Mooney, Peter; Juhász, Levente (July 2020). "Mapping COVID-19: How web-based maps contribute to the infodemic". Dialogues in Human Geography. 10 (2): 265–270. doi:10.1177/2 043820620934926.GeogSage (talk) 07:16, 30 July 2022 (UTC)

User:JPxG has added a notability tag to the article. A quick search of the term "infodemic" on Google Scholar returns multiple hits to peer-reviewed journals using the word "infodemic" in the title. The United Nation and World Health Organization both have used the term. I added a few sources in July, and I think the notice is unwarranted. How many additional journal articles are necessary to meet the definition of "notable?" GeogSage (talk) 04:16, 7 January 2023 (UTC)

As there has not been a reply I am removing the notability tag. If anyone wants to place the tag on the article again, please discuss on the talk page, as this has been discussed here. GeogSage ^{(⚔Chat?⚔)} 11:14, 21 January 2023 (UTC)

Format problems

I just added this: The Aspen Institute even started their misinformation project before the pandemic: [6]|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRX1GRSxk-M&t=130s </ref> But something is wrong with the format. Please correct it. I do not know how.Mocvd (talk)

If needed

This joint statement goes into more detail, though it might be redundant since the article is already well sourced. Managing the COVID-19 infodemic: Promoting healthy behaviours and mitigating the harm from misinformation and disinformation Mapsax (talk) 19:47, 18 July 2021 (UTC)

COI edit request: § Research during COVID-19 omits how the circulation was measured

I have a conflict of interest here and am requesting rather than making this edit.

The issue: The § Research during COVID-19 section opens with an unsourced sentence, "As COVID-19 swept across the globe, information about how to stay safe and how to identify symptoms became vital." The section then covers only two topics: the cartographic quality of government COVID-19 dashboards and the reliability of systematic reviews. A section titled "Research during COVID-19" that says nothing about the collection of social media data is incomplete on its own terms, since the empirical study of the COVID-19 infodemic was carried out largely on archives of social media posts. The article defines an infodemic as an over-abundance of information circulating in digital environments but never says how that circulation was measured.

Proposed change: Add the following sentence immediately after the sentence ending "There was also a proliferation of systematic reviews of COVID-19-related evidence, not all of which was robustly conducted." and its reference, in the § Research during COVID-19 section:

Researchers also assembled large public archives of social media posts in order to study how COVID-19 information circulated, including a public data set of coronavirus-related Twitter activity released in 2020.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Chen |first1=Emily |last2=Lerman |first2=Kristina |last3=Ferrara |first3=Emilio |date=2020 |title=Tracking Social Media Discourse About the COVID-19 Pandemic: Development of a Public Coronavirus Twitter Data Set |journal=JMIR Public Health and Surveillance |volume=6 |issue=2 |pages=e19273 |doi=10.2196/19273 |doi-access=free}}</ref>

Source: Emily Chen, Kristina Lerman, Emilio Ferrara, "Tracking Social Media Discourse About the COVID-19 Pandemic: Development of a Public Coronavirus Twitter Data Set", JMIR Public Health and Surveillance, 2020, vol. 6, no. 2, p. e19273. doi:10.2196/19273 {{doi}}: unflagged free DOI (link)

Disclosure: This citation is to work I co-authored (Emily Chen, Kristina Lerman, Emilio Ferrara). See User:Emilio Ferrara.

Happy for this to be declined or reworded; I will not make the edit myself. Emilio Ferrara (talk) 04:48, 27 July 2026 (UTC)