Fake News, Misinformation, and Privacy: How the COVID-19 Pandemic Changes Our Society and How Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technologies Reduce Their Effects

Kevin K.W. Ho; Dickson K.W. Chiu; C. H. Allen Au; Francis Dalisay; Stuart So; Masahiro Yamamoto

doi:10.1145/3636431

Fake News, Misinformation, and Privacy: How the COVID-19 Pandemic Changes Our Society and How Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technologies Reduce Their Effects

Kevin K.W. Ho
, Dickson K.W. Chiu
, C. H. Allen Au
, Francis Dalisay
, Stuart So
, Masahiro Yamamoto

Communication

University at Albany

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This position article summarizes the panelists’ presentations and discussions at the panel “Fake News, Misinformation, and Privacy: How COVID-19 Pandemic Changed Our Society,” held at the 15th International Conference on Information Resources Management (Conf-IRM 2022) on October 18, 2022. The panel discussed their views on (1) how to stop the spreading of health misinformation; (2) how information sources affect online health information behavior; (3) how news literacy increases people’s desire to seek out information by increasing their skepticism; and (4) how political beliefs, trust, and privacy concerns affect people’s decisions during COVID-19. This article also discusses how blockchain and distributed ledger technologies can help tackle the fake news and misinformation problem.

Original language	English
Article number	17
Journal	Distributed Ledger Technologies
Volume	3
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3636431
State	Published - Sep 9 2024

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COVID-19 pandemic
fake news
misinformation
privacy

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