Big Data, Natural Language Processing, and Deep Learning to Detect and Characterize Illicit COVID-19 Product Sales: Infoveillance Study on Twitter and Instagram
BackgroundThe coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic is perhaps the greatest global health challenge of the last century. Accompanying this pandemic is a parallel “infodemic,” including the online marketing and sale of unapproved, illegal, and counterfeit COVID-19 health products including testing...
Main Authors: | Mackey, Tim Ken, Li, Jiawei, Purushothaman, Vidya, Nali, Matthew, Shah, Neal, Bardier, Cortni, Cai, Mingxiang, Liang, Bryan |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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JMIR Publications
2020-08-01
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Series: | JMIR Public Health and Surveillance |
Online Access: | http://publichealth.jmir.org/2020/3/e20794/ |
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