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Misinformation, Political Polarization and Health Behaviors
Sat, September 17, 12:00 to 1:30pm, TBASession Submission Type: Created Panel
Session Description
COVID-19 has highlighted how existing societal fissures can be rapidly activated and exploited in ways that undermine trust and collective action. The papers in this panel expose the dangers that low societal trust and the active dissemination of misinformation can have, not only on political attitudes, but on health behaviors and outcomes. Papers on the panel explore drivers of misinformation seeking and how political polarization is harming health more directly both via misinformation and other channels.
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Individual Presentations
Analyzing the Discourse on COVID-19 in White Nationalist Online Spaces - Dror Walter, Georgia State University; Yotam Ophir, University at Buffalo; hui ye, Georgia State University
Mistrust in Government and Polarization in Health Behaviors during COVID-19 - Yongjin Choi, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine; Ashley M Fox, SUNY at Albany
The Effect of Facebook Service Availability on Misinformation Search Behavior - Matt Motta, Boston University School of Public Health; Dominik Andrzej Stecula, Colorado State University
Interagency Coordination for Infodemic Management during the COVID-19 Pandemic - Marie-Eve Bélanger, University of Geneva