A Comprehensive Data Repository for Fake Health News Detection - KDnuggets
You may not be surprised that 81.5% of the U.S. population search for health information online. Actually, around 70% of them treat the internet as the first source to get healthcare information. However, a large number of fake health news is poisoning the online environment. For example, a popular health news piece, "Ginger is 10,000x more effective at killing cancer than chemo," which generated around 1 million engagements on Facebook, turned out to be a misleading claim. These statements are threatening public health.
Mar-23-2020, 19:34:46 GMT
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