Articles By
Aleksandra Urman
COVID-19
How search engines disseminate information about COVID-19 and why they should do better
Mykola Makhortykh, Aleksandra Urman and Roberto Ulloa
Access to accurate and up-to-date information is essential for individual and collective decision making, especially at times of emergency. On February 26, 2020, two weeks before the World Health Organization (WHO) officially declared the COVID-19’s emergency a “pandemic,” we systematically collected and analyzed search results for the term “coronavirus” in three languages from six search engines. We