Exposure and Reactions to Cancer Treatment Misinformation and Advice: Survey Study.

Background: Cancer treatment misinformation, or false claims about alternative cures, often spreads faster and farther than true information on social media. Cancer treatment misinformation can harm the psychosocial and physical health of individuals with cancer and their cancer care networks by causing distress and encouraging people to abandon support, potentially leading to deviations from evidence-based care. There is a pressing need to understand how cancer treatment misinformation is shared and uncover ways to reduce misinformation.

Exploring Stigma and Black Mental Health on Twitter.

Studies have shown that normalizing conversations about mental health on social media can influence behavior and reduce mental health disparities in minority populations. Using a computational analysis of 169,936 publicly available tweets, this study sought to examine how social media users communicate about Black mental health on Twitter, and who is adding to the conversations surrounding mental health. Findings provide evidence of mental health awareness frames being the most prevalent in the data, and although treatment frames have been shown to reduce stigma, terms related to mental health treatment were not as prevalent.