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How search engines disseminate information about COVID-19 and why they should do better

Year: 2020

Type: article

Abstract: Access to accurate and up-to-date information is essential for individual and collective decision making, especially at times of emergency. On February 26, 2020, two weeks before the World Health Organization (WHO) officially declared the COVID-19’s emergency a “pandemic,” we systematically collected and analyzed search results for the term “coronavirus” in three languages from six search

Source: Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review

DOI: 10.37016/mr-2020-017

Authors: Mykola Makhortykh, Aleksandra Urman, Roberto Ulloa

Institutions: Harvard University, University of Bern, GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences

Language: English

Topic: Misinformation and Its Impacts

Subfield: Sociology and Political Science

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: diamond

Funder: University of Bern

OpenAlex ID: W3025764718