Column 1
[True or False]
An infodemic is an overload of information that occurs exclusively in the digital environment during an outbreak.
False. Infodemic is an overabundance of information, accurate or not, in the digital and physical space during an outbreak.
[True or False]
An infodemic leads to mistrust in government and public health authorities and can cause stigma and undermine social cohesion.
True.
[True or False]
Misinformation about health is a very modern phenomenon.
False.
[True or False]
We all see the same version of the Internet.
False. People are often biased in favor of information that supports their attitudes, intensifying the information cocoon effect.
[True or False]
Misinformation spreads easily when information voids and questions from people are not addressed quickly enough.
True.
During an infodemic, the information that is circulating contains:
A. Information of poor quality only
B. Exclusively disinformation created with intention to mislead
C. A mix of accurate, inaccurate, false, outdated, or misleading information contents
C
The digitized information environment, the 24-hour news cycle, and the interconnected sharing of information are characteristics of:
A. The information ecosystem
B. Public-private partnerships
C. Misinformation
A
The interventions recommended by WHO in the infodemic management ecosystem included: [select all that apply]
A. listen to concerns
B. communicate risk & distill science
C. promote resilience to misinformation
D. engage & empower communities
A B C D
Please sort the layers of the "information cake model" from the top to the bottom.
A. news media
B. policy
C. science
D. social media
C B A D
A strategy involving teaching people media manipulation techniques or exposing them to misinformation narratives so that they can regularly recognize it is known as:
A. debunking
B. social network analysis
C. social inoculation
D. fact-checking
C (media manipulation games)
What's the difference between misinformation and disinformation?
Misinformation is unintentional falsehoods, while Disinformation is deliberately engineered falsehoods created with malicious intentions.
How to prevent individuals from filling information voids with misinformation and disinformation?
Provide people with fact-based information from credible sources before misinformation/disinformation starts to spread.
The speakers in this afternoon, Dr. Qi and Ms. Pang, are from which center of China CDC?
Center for Global Public Health
In 2021, the United Nations General Assembly proclaimed the last week of which month of each year the "Global Media and Information Literacy Week"?
October.
Please state any 3 criteria for judging the quality of health information.
source criteria, content criteria, technical criteria;
CREDIBLE: current and frequently updated, reference cited, explicit purpose, discloser of developers and sponsors, interests disclosed and not influencing objectivity, balanced content, labeled with metadata, evidence-level indicated.