Abstract- Information pollution and social harms: Investigating the digital drift of medical misinformation

With cyberspace being increasingly used to support health-related decision making and to market health products, the social implications of online information pollution and medical misinformation are extremely relevant for social scientists and criminologists, as they may cause financial, physical and psychological/emotional harm to the primary victims, as well as public health problems, and loss of confidence in the professional scientific and medical norm. My presentation aims to further criminological debates around these issues, conceptualizing them in the broader context of technology- facilitated offending and victimization.