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Wagamaga OP t1_it3ch43 wrote

A new University of Alberta study shows how quickly extreme conspiracy theories about monkeypox spread on TikTok in the wake of news about outbreaks this past spring

Timothy Caulfield and Marco Zenone of the U of A’s health law institute analyzed nearly 900 videos about monkeypox posted to the social media platform over a day in mid-May 2022, just after the World Health Organization (WHO) issued a statement about outbreaks of the disease in numerous countries where it isn’t endemic.

https://calgarysun.com/news/local-news/u-of-a-study-tracks-speedy-spread-of-monkeypox-misinformation-on-tiktok/wcm/c03ce40b-05ee-4be1-943a-3d2ac521c3f0

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