objective: bad news disclosure is one of the most complex tasks of physicians. recent evidences indicate that patients' and physicians' attitude toward breaking bad news has been changed since few years ago. the evidence of breaking bad news is different across cultures. the aim of this study is to evaluate the attitude of medical staff toward breaking bad news to provide a clinical guideline i...

This study examines students' views on the phenomenon of fake news as through social media. aims to find out how attitudes respond in universities West Java, Indonesia. Data collection was carried using in-depth interviews and documentation studies explore research focus. found several things, namely: most students believed that spread accepted news. Even some have been creators spreaders Secon...

Entertainment news caters to people's desires for leisure and gossip. Recently, with the Internet popularization, online social network has become a convenient platform netizens receive spread entertainment news. Previous study efforts of focused on analyzing psychological background economic significance However, little attention was paid realistic propagation structure features news, which re...

Every year on April 1st, people play practical jokes one another and news websites fabricate false stories with the goal of making fools their audience. In an age disinformation, Facebook under fire for allowing “Fake News” to spread platform, every day can feel like Fools’ day. We create a dataset hoax articles build set features based past research examining deception, humour, satire. Analysi...

During and after the Covid-19 pandemic, people rely heavily on internet for information because of its easy accessibility. However, spread fake through this medium has been fast-growing, especially during pandemic. This study, therefore, aims to evaluate performance 5 machine learning models used in detecting news. The were trained using dataset gathered online. contains 7,262 real news 9,727 n...

COVER With her mother looking on, a woman in Hlabisa, South Africa, receives an HIV test as part of a survey by the Africa Centre for Health and Population Studies. In this issue, two Reports (pages 961 and 966) show that treating HIV-infected people reduces the risk of virus spread and increases life expectancy. A special News section (page 898) describes South Africa’s fi ght against the co-e...

Abstract News is a medium that notifies people about the events had happened worldwide. The menace of fake news on online platforms rise which may lead to unwanted events. majority spread through social media platforms, since these have great reach. To identify credibility news, various spam detection methods are generally used. In this work, new stance method has been proposed for identifying ...

  Background :People are increasingly interested in health news. As a mass media, the ‘Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting’ (IRIB) has the highest number of target audiences. In Iran, some people follow health news via health programs on satellites and other means of communication. However, all of these programs do not live up to the standards of scientific evidence. In this study, we examine...

The infection times of individuals in online information spread such as the inter-arrival time of Twitter messages or the propagation time of news stories on a social media site can be explained through a convolution of lognormally distributed observation and reaction times of the individual participants. Experimental measurements support the lognormal shape of the individual contributing proce...

n July 1951, news spread that certain manufacturers of homeopathic remedies in the Stockholm area had skipped part of the potentization process and had sold pure sugar pills under the false claim that they were homeopathic medicines. After extraordinarily timeand money-consuming investigations and legal proceedings, directors and others from Pharma-Drog AB and Drogon AB who were responsible for...