Currently submitted to: JMIR Medical Education
Date Submitted: Oct 19, 2023
Date Accepted: Mar 31, 2024
Time for medicine and public health to leave platform X
ABSTRACT
Digital technologies ranging from clinical decision support systems to social technologies have in the recent decades come to be used for knowledge translation in health services. Until today, it has been considered normal for medical and public health journals to have social media accounts. However, the recent dismantling of Twitter to platform X brings to light the fact that the social media industry needs to exploit users and their data to generate revenue. Considering that the social media industry disallows researchers to investigate harmful consequences of their business strategies, medical and public health journals with social media accounts should in the short term explain how they work on protecting their followers from secondary exposure to disinformation and the purpose of their social media presence. In parallel, a broad discussion is needed about the role of social technologies in the translation of knowledge to action in health services.
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