{"id":5007,"date":"2023-10-17T21:28:57","date_gmt":"2023-10-18T02:28:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=5007"},"modified":"2023-10-17T21:29:00","modified_gmt":"2023-10-18T02:29:00","slug":"this-is-how-the-fda-plans-to-fight-health-misinformation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2023\/10\/17\/this-is-how-the-fda-plans-to-fight-health-misinformation\/","title":{"rendered":"This Is How the FDA Plans to Fight Health Misinformation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/newsletters\/2023-10-17\/how-fda-uses-social-media-to-fight-health-misinformation\">Bloomberg<\/a> Another challenge for the FDA is to get the public to trust what they&#8217;re saying in the first place. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hi, it\u2019s Fiona in New York. A much-anticipated report on how the FDA can combat misinformation was published earlier this month. More on that later&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Pre-bunking vs. de-bunking<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Health misinformation is as old as medicine itself, but the age of social media has accelerated its reach. Now a viral TikTok, WhatsApp message, or Facebook post can reach millions in less than a day. Google searching can unwittingly lead those seeking health information to answers that aren&#8217;t true or, worse, dangerous. Sometimes, it can be hard to tell what\u2019s real, and what isn\u2019t.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/newsletters\/2023-10-17\/how-fda-uses-social-media-to-fight-health-misinformation\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg Another challenge for the FDA is to get the public to trust what they&#8217;re saying in the first place. Hi, it\u2019s Fiona in New York. A much-anticipated report on how the FDA can combat misinformation was published earlier this month. More on that later&#8230; Pre-bunking vs. de-bunking Health misinformation is as old as medicine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":5008,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-misinformation-disinformation-and-conspiracy-theories"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Screenshot-2023-10-17-at-22.27.33.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5007"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5009,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5007\/revisions\/5009"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}