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. 2019 Oct 1;10:2252. doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2019.02252

Corrigendum: Fake News or Weak Science? Visibility and Characterization of Antivaccine Webpages Returned by Google in Different Languages and Countries

Nadia Arif 1, Majed Al-Jefri 2, Isabella Harb Bizzi 3, Gianni Boitano Perano 4, Michel Goldman 5, Inam Haq 4, Kee Leng Chua 6, Manuela Mengozzi 1, Marie Neunez 5, Helen Smith 6, Pietro Ghezzi 1,*
PMCID: PMC6779847  PMID: 31616426

In the original article, there was a mistake in Supplementary Material Data Sheet 1 as published. In the tab “Australia” the value of cell M191 should be “0” instead of “1” and that of cell N191 should be “1” instead of “0.” The corrected Supplementary Material Data Sheet 1 has been replaced in the original article.

In addition, there was a mistake in Table 6 as published. The percentage of vaccine-negative websites for Australia should be “33.3%” instead of “16.7%.” The corrected Table 6 appears below.

Table 6.

Frequency of vaccine-negative webpages in each typology.

google.com UK AUS FR IT Man Port Ara
Comm 71.4 60.0 33.3 77.8 0.0 25.0 16.7 0.0
Gov 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
HP 0.0 0.0 16.7 0.0 12.5 27.8 7.1 0.0
News 6.8 7.0 2.0 0.0 2.1 12.1 7.3 3.9
NP 10.0 11.5 4.8 30.0 0.0 15.4 33.3 0.0
Other 34.0 40.0 39.7 30.8 30.6 29.8 56.4 15.8
Prof 7.7 7.7 5.0 7.1 0.0 10.0 17.4 0.0
ScJ 0.0 23.1 7.7 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Average vaccine-negative in the total search engine result page (SERP)
16.6 19.7 16.0 19.6 11.5 19.0 24.2 7.5

Data indicate the percentage of vaccine-negative webpages in each typology. Cells are color coded to show difference from “expected” based on the frequency in the total SERP shown in the bottom row (red, above the expected frequency; green, below the expected frequency).

The authors apologize for this error and state that this does not change the scientific conclusions of the article in any way. The original article has been updated.


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