The role of AI in addressing misinformation on social media platforms

The role of AI in addressing misinformation on social media platforms
CDEI 5 August 2021

• A report on the role of AI in addressing misinformation on social media platforms, which details the findings from an expert forum it convened last year, with representatives from platforms, fact-checking organisations, media groups, and academia.

Knowledge Panels

NHS working with Google on Knowledge Panels
NHS Digital 11 March 2020

• The NHS has worked with Google to ensure it provides the public in the UK with easy access to NHS information about more than 250 of the most searched for health conditions on the NHS website, through new Knowledge Panels.
• The NHS wants to ensure the public are presented with accurate and up to date information, however they search for information. The Knowledge Panels will include information about symptoms, treatment and causes.

Utilising social media to educate and inform about evidence-based healthcare

Utilising social media to educate and inform healthcare professionals, policy-makers and the broader community in evidence-based healthcare
BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine 22 May 2019;24:87–89

• The ability to objectively determine the impact of social media on knowledge translation is challenging. However, there are ways to assess the quality of social media research, the quality of social media modalities such as blogs and podcasts and the potential impact of social media on dissemination of knowledge.
• Social media use... is associated with the development of communities of practice that promote the transfer of information at scale, crossing institutional and geographical boundaries not previously possible. These forums also allow shared conversations around critical appraisal of new evidence that is transparent and accessible to users.
• NOECO - a framework for reporting research in healthcare social media
• Network eg twitter
• Object eg hastags or post sentiment analysis
• Engine eg symplur or semantria
• Comparison eg regular distribution vs clustering in twitter
• Observation eg twitter users clustered around few noted or sentiment in a community changed after an event

Day of the week to tweet: a randomised controlled trial

Day of the week to tweet: a randomised controlled trial.
BMJ Open 2019;9:e025380. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-025380
The day a tweet was sent made no significant difference to target website activity, but tweeting did increase target activity overall.

"Tweet any day but do Tweet."

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Impact of social media on young people's mental health and wellbeing

#NewFilters to manage the impact of social media on young people’s mental health and wellbeing.
All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Social Media and Young People’s Mental Health and Wellbeing 18 March 2019

• This is the first national Inquiry specifically examining the impact of social media on the mental health and wellbeing of young people, which ran from April 2018 to January 2019.
• The report explores the positive and negative health impacts of social media, as well as putting forward recommendations to protect young social media users from potential health harms.

Suicide prevention plan focuses on social media and technology

Cross-government suicide prevention plan
DHSC 22 January 2019

• The plan for reducing deaths from suicide in England has a focus on how social media and the latest technology can identify those most at risk.
• The government has published the first cross-government suicide prevention plan. The plan has a focus on how social media and the latest technology – such as predictive analytics and artificial intelligence – can identify those at risk of suicide.

Impact of social media on breast screening rates

More women attend for breast screening thanks to success of digital inclusion project
NHS Digital 30 October 2018

• An NHS project using social media to improve health by boosting digital inclusion has led to a 13 per cent increase in first time attendances for breast screening in Stoke-on-Trent over four years.
• The local initiative saw information about screening posted on Facebook community groups, which empowered and enabled women to make appointments by reducing their anxiety around breast examinations. It also allowed them to communicate quickly and easily with health practitioners to ask questions about the screening process.