Detecting Health Misinformation on Social Media Using Large Language Models: A Comparative Study of Vaccine and Tanning Discourse on Reddit (Preprint)

UNSTRUCTURED By applying Large Language Models to analyze Reddit discourse, this study demonstrates that vaccine misinformation is highly reactive to external events like the COVID-19 pandemic, whereas tanning misinformation remains culturally entrenched and stable, highlighting the necessity for domain-specific public health interventions.