Published on in Vol 24, No 12 (2022): December

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/36729, first published .
Characterizing the Prevalence of Obesity Misinformation, Factual Content, Stigma, and Positivity on the Social Media Platform Reddit Between 2011 and 2019: Infodemiology Study

Characterizing the Prevalence of Obesity Misinformation, Factual Content, Stigma, and Positivity on the Social Media Platform Reddit Between 2011 and 2019: Infodemiology Study

Characterizing the Prevalence of Obesity Misinformation, Factual Content, Stigma, and Positivity on the Social Media Platform Reddit Between 2011 and 2019: Infodemiology Study

Catherine C Pollack   1, 2 , PhD ;   Jennifer A Emond   1, 3 , PhD ;   A James O'Malley   1, 4 , PhD ;   Anna Byrd   2 * ;   Peter Green   2 * , BA ;   Katherine E Miller   2 * , BA ;   Soroush Vosoughi   5 , PhD ;   Diane Gilbert-Diamond   2, 3, 6 , ScD ;   Tracy Onega   7 , PhD

1 Department of Biomedical Data Science, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Lebanon, NH, United States

2 Department of Epidemiology, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Lebanon, NH, United States

3 Department of Pediatrics, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Lebanon, NH, United States

4 The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, Hanover, NH, United States

5 Department of Computer Science, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, United States

6 Department of Medicine, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Lebanon, NH, United States

7 Department of Population Health Sciences, Huntsman Cancer Institute, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States

*these authors contributed equally

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