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. 2022 Oct 11;328(14):1393-1394.
doi: 10.1001/jama.2022.17191.

Social Media and Medical Misinformation: Confronting New Variants of an Old Problem

Dhruv Khullar  1   2
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Social Media and Medical Misinformation: Confronting New Variants of an Old Problem

Dhruv Khullar. JAMA. .
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Plain language summary

This Viewpoint describes several proposals to mitigate the role of social media in medical misinformation from the ABIM Foundation’s 2022 Forum, including algorithmic adjustment, misinformation research and surveillance, and medical professional training and community engagement.

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