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About 14.9% of tweets contained untrue information, particularly in the nutrigenomics concepts category.
Practitioners should be aware of the prevalence of misinformation in social media discussions about precision nutrition.
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A total of 14.9% (75/504) of the tweets were noted to contain untrue information; these were most likely to occur in the nutrigenomics concepts topic category.
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Based on quantitative content analysis of tweets.
Source
Characterizing Precision Nutrition Discourse on Twitter: Quantitative Content Analysis (Preprint)
Sapna Batheja et al. · 2022
DOI 10.2196/preprints.43701
other · n=504
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