arXiv:2608. 15691v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Health misinformation circulating during pandemics can gain traction rapidly, creating harmful narratives that compete with public health guidance.
By Mkululi Sikosana, Sean Maudsley-Barton, Oluwaseun Ajao
arXiv:2601. 09853v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Real-world health questions from patients often unintentionally embed false assumptions or premises.
By Sraavya Sambara, Yuan Pu, Ayman Ali, Vishala Mishra, Lionel Wong, Monica Agrawal
arXiv:2607. 12336v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies, while serving as a foundational enabler for modern social media and digital health services, exert a bivalent effect by simultaneously acting as a combatant against and a spread vector for misinformation.
By Farnaz Farid, Raihan Alam, Al Al-Areqi, Farhad Ahamed, Muhammad Hassan Khan, Sadia Hossain, Irena Veljanova, Anika Tabassum Binte Hossain
arXiv:2606. 10380v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Real-world crisis intervention is inherently conversational, yet existing research largely focuses on static texts.
By Grace Byun, Abigail Lott, Rebecca Lipschutz, Sean T. Minton, Elizabeth A. Stinson, Jinho D. Choi
arXiv:2510. 18908v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Social media platforms such as Twitter (now X) provide rich data for analyzing public discourse, especially during crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic.
By Wangjiaxuan Xin, Shuhua Yin, Shi Chen, Yaorong Ge
arXiv:2608. 16323v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The spread of misinformation on social networks poses a significant challenge to online communities and society at large.
By Enrico Verdolotti, Luca Luceri, Silvia Giordano
arXiv:2405. 17838v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Socio-linguistic indicators of affectively-relevant phenomena, such as emotion or sentiment, are often extracted from text to better understand features of human-computer interactions, including on social media.
By Keith Burghardt, Daniel M. T. Fessler, Chyna Tang, Anne Pisor, Kristina Lerman
arXiv:2512. 06227v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Real-world indicators play an important role in many Natural Language Processing (NLP) applications, such as life events for mental health analysis and risky behaviours for online safety, yet labelling such information is often costly and/or difficult due to its multi-label and dynamic nature.
By Junyu Mao, Anthony Hills, Talia Tseriotou, Maria Liakata, Aya Shamir, Dan Sayda, Dana Atzil-Slonim, Natalie Djohari, Pamela Ugwudike, Mahesan Niranjan, Stuart E. Middleton
arXiv:2607. 14957v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Online firestorms are rapid collective escalations of highly negative user-generated content and may cause substantial reputational and economic damage.
By Besim Shala, Peter Mandl, Andreas Humpe, Martin H\"ausl
arXiv:2608. 15689v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This study presents a hybrid epidemiological and behavioural framework to simulate the spread of health misinformation on social media.
By Mkululi Sikosana, Sean Maudsley-Barton, Oluwaseun Ajao
arXiv:2606. 07237v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used in healthcare for tasks such as clinical question answering, diagnosis support, and report summarization.
By Mahdi Alkaeed
Nowadays, social media networks have become widely preferred sources of information. Especially during the time of the Coronavirus disease 2019 COVID 19 pandemic, social media has been one of the most used platforms to get the latest news and information related to COVID 19.