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- noun informal An excessive amount of
information concerning aproblem such that thesolution is made more difficult
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DOW: I think the media has to have a measured response and by an infodemic I do think that it has the potential to happen.
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DOW: I think the media has to have a measured response and by an infodemic I do think that it has the potential to happen.
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The first case Rothkopf dubbed an infodemic was the 2002 SARS epidemic.
TODAY'S ZAMAN :: News ŞULE KULU 2010
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In Turkey's most striking infodemic, Turks were gripped by fear of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein's possible use of nuclear weapons during the 1991 Gulf War.
TODAY'S ZAMAN :: News ŞULE KULU 2010
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Meanwhile, covidiots are spurning lockdown restrictions in ways likely to make the pandemic worse, amid an infodemic of dodgy news and half-informed coronasplaining.
The rules of coronaspeak The Economist 2020
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On the other hand, there might be an increasing medicalisation of political rhetoric, as with the revival of the scary term “infodemic”, used by the WHO in the spring to describe a deluge of misinformation about Covid-19.
From 'alert' to 'zoom': Steven Poole's lexicon of lockdown Steven Poole 2020
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WHO explains that infodemics are an excessive amount of information about a problem, which makes it difficult to identify a solution.
UN tackles ‘infodemic’ of misinformation and cybercrime in COVID-19 crisis | United Nations United Nations 2023
vendingmachine commented on the word infodemic
On 2 February, the WHO declared there was a "massive infodemic" accompanying the outbreak and response, citing an over-abundance of reported information, accurate and false, about the virus that "makes it hard for people to find trustworthy sources and reliable guidance when they need it."
March 8, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word infodemic
Coronavirus is more of an infodemic than an epidemic.
March 8, 2020