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Sep 2026
The Online Health Safety Gap: Consensus Alignment Does Not Imply Safety in Peer-to-Peer Health Narratives.
Online health information systems evaluate content by its alignment with medical consensus, treating that alignment as a reliable signal of safety. In peer-to-peer health discourse, that assumption fails: advice that is factually accurate is not necessarily safe to act on. This paper identifies and empirically validate...
O. Clark, K. Joshi, Z. Ahmed
· medRxiv · 0 citations