Original English article published in the American Journal of Public Health: https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2020.305854

Objectives.

To provide a comprehensive workflow to identify top influential health misinformation about Zika on Twitter in 2016, reconstruct information dissemination networks of retweeting, contrast mis- from real information on various metrics, and investigate how Zika misinformation proliferated on social media during the Zika epidemic.

Original English article published in the American Journal of Public Health: https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2020.305905

Original English article published in the American Journal of Public Health: https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2020.305906

Original English article published in the American Journal of Public Health: https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2020.305908

An “infodemic” is defined as “an overabundance of information – some accurate and some not – occurring during an epidemic”. This paper describes the characteristics of an infodemic, which combines an inordinately high volume of information (leading to problems relating to locating the information, storage capacity, ensuring quality, visibility and validity) and rapid output (making it hard to assess its value, manage the gatekeeping process, apply results, track its history, and leading to a waste of effort).

This article offers guidance on managing the infodemic in digital media, based on the experiences of news agencies at a time when an increase in journalistic production is coinciding with the response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The provision of timely, clear, correct information is an important strategy for controlling panic and containing a pandemic outbreak. However, as this task has not been prioritized in the context of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, a new lethal enemy has emerged that now poses another crisis, namely, the "infodemic", with consequences that have affected the entire population worldwide.

Objective.

To identify evidence of infodemic management strategies in the ministry of health websites in 10 South American countries (Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, Bolivia, Peru, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela).

Objective.

Describe patterns in the dissemination of fake news in the context of COVID-19 mortality and infodemic management in six Latin American countries.

Objectives.

To present a methodology for the simultaneous setting of quantitative targets that reflect both an improvement in the national average of an indicator for Sustainable Development Goal 3 (SDG3), as well as a reduction in its geographic inequality.