Social media is a source of health-related misinformation

Commentary on: Wang Y, McKee M, Torbica A, et al . Systematic review on the spread of health-related misinformation on social media. Soc Sci Med .2019;240:112552.doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2019.112552. [Epub ahead of print 18 Sep 2019]. Over the past 25 years, the Internet and social media have rapidly become ubiquitous in daily life, and despite improved access to information there are increasing concerns that these social channels are also spreading health-related false information or misinformation.1 2 The aim of this systematic review1 was to investigate health-related misinformation content on social media and how this was disseminated online including …