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Erin Madden, PhD Candidate and Research Program Officer, University of Sydney

Even experts struggle to tell which social media posts are evidence-based. So, what do we do?

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The debate on how to combat social media misinformation is as relevant as ever. In recent years, we’ve seen medical misinformation spreading alongside COVID, and political misinformation impacting the outcome of elections and national referendums.

Experts have largely placed the impetus to stop misinformation on three groups: social media users, government regulators, and social media platforms themselves.

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