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Healthcare professionals no better than students at detecting COVID fake news stories

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PLOS

Healthcare professionals perform no better than students at detecting coronavirus false news stories.

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Article Title: "Infodemics: Do healthcare professionals detect corona-related false news stories better than students?"

Funding: The financial support of Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation - 388911356) is gratefully acknowledged (receipt of the grant: Sven Grüner). We acknowledge the financial support within the funding programme Open Access Publishing by the German Research Foundation (DFG). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.

Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Article URL: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0247517


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