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University of Texas's Southwestern Researchers Document 'Infodemic' of False Information on COVID-19 in First Year of Pandemic
August 05, 2022
DALLAS, Texas, Aug. 5 (TNSjou) -- The University of Texas's Southwestern Medical Center issued the following news release:

More than 225,000 tweets with the hashtags #scamdemic and #plandemic led to an "infodemic" of misinformation and disinformation on Twitter during the first year of the pandemic, according to a study by UT Southwestern researchers published in PLOS ONE.

Driven by concerns over grave consequences from the spread of false information abo . . .

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