Misinformation - articles and a taxonomy

 Firstly, via the World Health Organization's Infodemic Management Newsflash; their just-published Public health taxonomy for social listening on monkeypox conversations - basically a checklist to enable you to categorise what kinds of issues are being discussed about Monkeypox on social media. The aim is to be able to analyse the conversation in particular regions/languages or channels, so that you can then develop an effective strategy to combat misinformation (by targetting the issues that are being most discussed and are the soiurces of most misinformation). There are sections for: the cause; the illness; the treatment; the interventions; the information. https://www.who.int/publications/m/item/public-health-taxonomy-for-social-listening-on-monkeypox-conversations

Secondly a couple of articles:
- Alwan, A., Garcia, E., Kirakosian, A. & Weiss, A. (2021). Fake News and Libraries: How Teaching Faculty in Higher Education View Librarians’ Roles in Counteracting the Spread of False Information. Partnership, 16(2), 1–30. https://doi.org/10.21083/partnership.v16i2.6483
- Borah, P. (2022). The Moderating Role of Political Ideology: Need for Cognition, Media Locus of Control, Misinformation Efficacy, and Misperceptions About COVID-19.  International Journal of Communication, 16 https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/18261 I thought this article was interesting for the idea of "misinformation efficacy" (derived from Bandura's concept of self-efficacy) Abstract "Along with the horrific impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been another attack alongside termed as the “infodemic.” The main purposes of the current study are to examine (1) the association between literacy variables and misperceptions about COVID-19 and (2) the moderating role of political ideology on these relationships. The findings from a survey conducted in the United States show that self-identified liberals, need for cognition, and misinformation efficacy were negatively related to misperceptions about COVID-19. Findings from Hayes’s PROCESS model 1 show meaningful moderating effects of need for cognition, media locus of control, and misinformation efficacy with political ideology. Implications are discussed."