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Countermeasures adopted thus far to curb these informational disorders have had limited success because these did not account for the diversity of informational contexts on social media, focusing instead almost exclusively on curating the factual content of user\u2019s posts. However, content-focused measures do not address the primary causes of the infodemic itself, namely the user\u2019s need to post content as a way of making sense of the situation and for gathering reactions of consensus from friends. This paper describes three types of informational context\u2014weak epistemic, strong normative and strong emotional\u2014which have not yet been taken into account by current measures to curb down the informational disorders. 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