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SINGAPORE - Editorial content producer Theophila Toh, 24, is on a mission: to connect with those in anti-vaccination messaging groups and address fake news there. She was inspired after a 65-year-old woman was hospitalised on Oct 1 after taking ivermectin - a drug used to treat parasite infections - on the advice of her church friends who said it could...
SINGAPORE - Editorial content producer Theophila Toh, 24, is on a mission: to connect with those in anti-vaccination messaging groups and address fake news there.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
The more time people spend on Facebook, the higher the risk of suffering from depression, a study has found.
People who spend most of their time on Facebook are at higher risk of suffering from depression.
Study highlights mainstream news media’s role in public health communication during the pandemic A study by Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) has found that as the type of COVID-19 misinformation rectified by Singapore's mainstream news media evolved over the course of the pandemic, the role played by the media in debunking those myths became increasingly important to citizens in the nation's fight to manage the outbreak. Out of 2,000 news articles on COVID-19 published between 1 January to 30 April 2020, the NTU team analyzed 164 news articles. The team observed t...