YouTube as a source of information on COVID-19: a pandemic of misinformation?

Overview of attention for article published in BMJ Global Health Journal, May 2020

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news: 168 news outlets
blogs: 11 blogs
policy: 3 policy sources

twitter: 377 X users
facebook: 4 Facebook pages
reddit: 1 Redditor

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Transition from pandemic to infodemic: an analysis of Turkish- language COVID-19 YouTube videos

Cited by World Health Organization on 04 Apr 2022

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Cited by World Health Organization on 19 Jun 2021

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