Andrew Greco wrote a new blog post Fentanyl panic goes viral: The spread of misinformation about overdose risk from casual contact with fentanyl in mainstream and social media in the group SPRING 24: Dragon 1000: DIS/MISINFORMATION AND NEW IDEAS: CRITICAL THINKING IN COMPLEX TIMES

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Fentanyl panic goes viral: The spread of misinformation about overdose risk from casual contact with fentanyl in mainstream and social mediaBeletsky, L., Seymour, S., Kang, S., Siegel, Z., Sinha, M. S., Marino, R., Dave, A., & Freifeld, C. C. (2020). Fentanyl panic goes viral: The spread of misinformation about overdose risk from casual contact with fentanyl in mainstream and social media. International Journal of Drug Policy, 86, 102951. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2020.102951 A substantial amount of false information about the risk of overdosing from casual fentanyl contact has reportedly been spread through social media and mainstream channels, according to statistics cited in the news article “Fentanyl Panic Goes Viral: The Spread of Misinformation about Overdose Risk from Casual Contact with Fentanyl in Mainstream and social media”. It also covers the issue of how erroneous information and inflated claims regarding the ease of fentanyl overdose have caused unwarranted anxiety and panic in the public. The article also lists cases where the strength and methods of transmission of fentanyl are misreported, which distorts people's understanding of the true risks connected to the drug. This relates to van der Linden's acronyms of persecuted victims and is contradictory since the target audience for this mis and disinformation is hitting the younger generations on social media and the older generations on news networks that are biased and that exaggerate their information […]

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Andrew Greco wrote a new blog post Fentanyl panic goes viral: The spread of misinformation about overdose risk from casual contact with fentanyl in mainstream and social media in the group SPRING 24: Dragon 1000: DIS/MISINFORMATION AND NEW IDEAS: CRITICAL THINKING IN COMPLEX TIMES

Andrew Greco joined the group SPRING 24: Dragon 1000: DIS/MISINFORMATION AND NEW IDEAS: CRITICAL THINKING IN COMPLEX TIMES

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