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Table 6.

Extracted information on the ethics status of included studies in present rapid review

Study	SoMe platform(s)	Ethics approval or mention if present
Formal ethics approval
Blackstone et al. ⁽⁷⁶⁾	Facebook	Approved by the IRB at the researchers’ universities.
Nguyen et al. ⁽⁵²⁾	Twitter	The University of Utah Institutional Review Board
Nguyen et al. ⁽⁶⁴⁾	Twitter Yelp	The University of Utah Institutional Review Board
Vyidiswaran et al. ⁽⁸⁵⁾	Twitter	University of Michigan Institutional Review Board
Formal ethics review with exemption granted
Cavazos-Rehg et al. ⁽⁶⁵⁾	Twitter	Institutional review board exemption.
Mention of ethics consideration in the absence of formal review
ElTayeby et al. ⁽⁶⁷⁾	Facebook group	Deidentified posts.
Karami et al. ⁽⁵⁵⁾	Twitter	Publicly available tweets.
Turner-McGrievy et al. ⁽⁷⁵⁾	Twitter	Conducted in accordance with ethical standards
Wombacher et al. ⁽⁶⁶⁾	Twitter	Messages on Twitter are publicly available
No ethical approval or mention
Abbar et al. Twitter⁽⁵⁷⁾; Alhabash et al. Twitter⁽⁷³⁾; Alajajian et al. Twitter⁽⁵⁰⁾; Carrotte et al. Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, Instagram⁽⁷⁷⁾; Chen et al. Twitter⁽⁶³⁾; Fried et al. Twitter⁽⁵⁸⁾; Huang et al. Twitter⁽⁶⁹⁾, Kershaw et al. Twitter⁽⁷⁰⁾, Mejova et al. Instagram, Foursquare⁽⁵⁹⁾, Ofli et al. Instagram⁽⁶⁰⁾, Pang et al. Instagram⁽⁷¹⁾, Phan et al. Instagram⁽⁷²⁾, Primack et al. YouTube⁽⁶⁸⁾; Rahman et al. Twitter, Foursquare⁽⁷⁸⁾, Rich et al. Instagram⁽⁶¹⁾, Nguyen et al. Twitter⁽⁴⁹⁾; Shah et al. Twitter⁽⁴⁷⁾; Sharma et al. Instagram⁽⁶²⁾, Silva et al. Foursquare⁽⁵⁶⁾; Sullivan et al. Amazon⁽⁸¹⁾; Sun, et al. Twitter⁽⁵¹⁾; Vidal et al. Twitter⁽⁵⁴⁾; Widener et al. Twitter⁽⁵³⁾; Yan et al. Koubei⁽⁷⁹⁾; Zhou et al. Weibo⁽⁸⁰⁾.

IRB, institutional review board.