Towards Domain-Specific Characterization of Misinformation

The rapid dissemination of health misinformation poses an increasing risk to public health. To best understand the way of combating health misinformation, it is important to acknowledge how the fundamental characteristics of misinformation differ from domain to domain. This paper presents a pathway towards domain-specific characterization of misinformation so that we can address the concealed behavior of health misinformation compared to others and take proper initiative accordingly for combating it. With this aim, we have mentioned several possible approaches to identify discriminating features of medical misinformation from other types of misinformation. Thereafter, we briefly propose a research plan followed by possible challenges to meet up. The findings of the proposed research idea will provide new directions to the misinformation research community.

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