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Anne Dirkson

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An exploratory study of COVID-19 misinformation on Twitter.

2020

During the COVID-19 pandemic, social media has become a home ground for misinformation. To tackle this infodemic, scientific oversight, as well as a better understanding by practitioners in crisis management, is needed. We have conducted an exploratory study into the propagation, authors and content of misinformation on Twitter around the topic of COVID-19 in order to gain early insights. We have collected all tweets mentioned in the verdicts of fact-checked claims related to COVID-19 by over 92 professional fact-checking organisations between January and mid-July 2020 and share this corpus with the community. This resulted in 1 500 tweets relating to 1 274 false and 276 partially false cla…

FOS: Computer and information sciencesCoronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)Computer Networks and CommunicationsDiffusion of informationInternet privacyTwitterExploratory research02 engineering and technologyCrisis managementFalse accusationArticleSocial mediaComputer Science - Computers and SocietyOrder (exchange)Computers and Society (cs.CY)0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineeringSocial mediaMisinformationSocial and Information Networks (cs.SI)business.industryCommunicationCOVID-19Computer Science - Social and Information Networks020206 networking & telecommunicationsExploratory analysisVDP::Samfunnsvitenskap: 200::Sosiologi: 220CoronavirusInformatikFake newsMisinformation020201 artificial intelligence & image processingPsychologybusinessInformation SystemsOnline social networks and media
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