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In this instance, there should be some regulatory authority to control the posting of fabricated data about coronavirus. They can use tools such as data mining or labeling as a verified post, in social media. Without this sort of accountability, social media may fail to keep trust as a legitimate friend to give us advice related to a potential public health emergency. Perhaps, it is better avoiding those posts that emerged in social media or verifying those with some statutory sources.<\/p>\n
About the Authors:<\/strong><\/p>\n Dr Zubair Ahmed Ratan,<\/strong> MBBS, is a PhD student in the School of Health and Society, University of Wollongong, Australia. He is currently working on smartphone addiction projects.<\/p>\n Dr Hassan Hosseinzadeh<\/strong>, PhD, is a Senior lecturer and Academic Program Director of\u00a0Master of Public Health &\u00a0Master of Public Health Advanced in the\u00a0School of Health and Society, University of Wollongong, New South Wales.\u00a0He has\u00a0special interests in health behaviour change, chronic disease,\u00a0sexual health including HIV\/AIDS, health literacy\u00a0and primary\u00a0care.<\/p>\n Dr Sojib Bin Zaman, MBBS, i<\/strong>s a PhD student at the Department of Medicine, School of Clinical Sciences at Monash Health, Monash University,\u00a0Melbourne, Australia. His research interest includes: communicable and non-communicable diseases, health informatics and health systems research<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong>Competing interest <\/strong><\/p>\n The authors declare that there is no conflict of interest.<\/p>\n Acknowledgement <\/strong><\/p>\n Sojib Bin Zaman is supported by the “Australian Government Research Training Program (RTP) Scholarship.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong>References<\/strong><\/p>\n