This involves reaching out to the user privately and correcting the claim, while providing reputable sources to support the correction. 

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Health professionals can either correct the misinformation publicly or privately. They also have the choice to correct it via priming or via rebuttal. 

Health Professionals' Methods of Correcting Misinformation

Bautista, J. R., Zhang, Y., & Gwizdka, J. (2021). Healthcare professionals’ acts of correcting health misinformation on social media. International Journal of Medical Informatics, 148(104375). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2021.104375

Healthcare professionals’ acts of correcting health misinformation on social media

This involves correcting the misinformation publicly by commenting on a post. They will support their correction with references as well. 

Public Rebuttal from Health Professionals

Private Rebuttal from Health Professionals

This correction method involves posting a correction to misinformation publicly on social media. This allows health professionals to preemptively correct misinformation, rather than responding to every single piece of heath misinformation they encounter online. 

Public Priming from Health Professionals

This correction method involves posting correct health information and making it available to a small group of people. This method has a more limited scope, and it is used mostly to prevent one's close friends or family from spreading misinformation.

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