This paper is in the following e-collection/theme issue:

Theme Issue: Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Outbreak Rapid Reports (1517) Artificial Intelligence (1371) Cyberpharmacies (45) Infodemiology and Infoveillance (1349) Medicine 2.0: Social Media, Open, Participatory, Collaborative Medicine (1641) Big Data (240) Machine Learning (1465) Natural Language Processing (692) Infectious Diseases (non-STD/STI) (1575) Infoveillance, Infodemiology, Digital Disease Surveillance, Infodemic Management (1041) Mass Media/Social Media Communication and Campaigns (461) Outbreak and Pandemic Preparedness and Management (1727) Infoveillance and Social Listening (209)

Published on in Vol 6, No 3 (2020): Jul-Sep

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/20794, first published .
Big Data, Natural Language Processing, and Deep Learning to Detect and Characterize Illicit COVID-19 Product Sales: Infoveillance Study on Twitter and Instagram

Big Data, Natural Language Processing, and Deep Learning to Detect and Characterize Illicit COVID-19 Product Sales: Infoveillance Study on Twitter and Instagram

Big Data, Natural Language Processing, and Deep Learning to Detect and Characterize Illicit COVID-19 Product Sales: Infoveillance Study on Twitter and Instagram

Authors of this article:

Tim Ken Mackey1, 2, 3, 4 Author Orcid Image ;   Jiawei Li2, 3, 4 Author Orcid Image ;   Vidya Purushothaman3, 5 Author Orcid Image ;   Matthew Nali1, 3, 4 Author Orcid Image ;   Neal Shah2, 3 Author Orcid Image ;   Cortni Bardier6 Author Orcid Image ;   Mingxiang Cai3, 4 Author Orcid Image ;   Bryan Liang3 Author Orcid Image
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