In today’s digitized society, health information flows faster than ever. A single viral tweet or video can spread to millions within minutes. While this might seem like a breakthrough for public awareness, it opens the floodgates for a silent pandemic—health misinformation. This phenomenon is not merely annoying or misleading; it’s dangerously deceptive, potentially fatal, and often legally actionable. That’s where the legal control of health misinformation steps in, as a growing and essential frontier in public health protection. The Global Surge of Health Misinformation From anti-vaccine rhetoric to unapproved miracle cures for terminal illnesses, health misinformation comes in many guises.…
