{"id":72778,"date":"2025-03-01T09:07:10","date_gmt":"2025-03-01T09:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=72778"},"modified":"2025-03-01T09:07:10","modified_gmt":"2025-03-01T09:07:10","slug":"social-media-influencers-are-fearmongering-to-promote-health-tests-with-limited-evidence-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/03\/01\/social-media-influencers-are-fearmongering-to-promote-health-tests-with-limited-evidence-study-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"Social media influencers are \u2018fearmongering\u2019 to promote health tests with limited evidence, study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><div class=\"dcr-1fnjjtg\" data-gu-name=\"headline\">\n<div class=\"dcr-14emo0l\">\n<div class=\"dcr-cohhs3\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/c1d41ef369294c0d8f29d37c805582f9c7cbaf23\/258_0_5144_3087\/master\/5144.jpg?width=480&amp;dpr=1&amp;s=none&amp;crop=none\" alt=\"Human microbiota illustration\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"dcr-hzam7a\" data-gu-name=\"body\">\n<div class=\"dcr-1a4fred\">\n<div id=\"maincontent\" class=\"dcr-1bwys2b\">\n<div class=\"article-body-commercial-selector article-body-viewer-selector  dcr-11jq3zt\">\n<p class=\"dcr-s3ycb2\">Influencers are appealing to emotional narratives around health and often \u201cfearmongering\u201d to promote controversial medical tests on social media, a new study has found, in ways that are overwhelmingly misleading and fail to mention <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2025\/feb\/27\/social-media-influencers-are-fearmongering-to-promote-health-tests-with-limited-evidence-study-finds\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Influencers are appealing to emotional narratives around health and often \u201cfearmongering\u201d to promote controversial medical tests on social media, a new study&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":62165,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-72778","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Full-body-MRI.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72778"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72779,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72778\/revisions\/72779"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}