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Identifying Misinformation About Unproven Cancer Treatments on Social Media Using User-Friendly Linguistic Characteristics: Content Analysis
June 28, 2025
New methods exist for identifying cancer misinformation online by building misinformation-detecting algorithms that can identify core linguistic characteristics.
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