- LQMS are being tweeted at a slower rate than HQHS, but retweeted at a higher rate

University of Michigan - Ann Arbor

- To study the difference between high- and low-quality sources used to support Tweets, researchers separated sources that the selected Tweets could be traced back to into two groups
- High quality health sources (HQHS) included information from the CDC, top medial journals and hospitals, US government agencies providing official health recommendations
- Low quality misinformation sources (LQMS) included sources that NewsGuard identified as troublesome and spreading false information 

A first look at COVID-19 information and misinformation sharing on Twitter - Tweet Quality Data Collection

Singh, L., Bansal, S., Bode, L., Budak, C., Chi, G., Kawintiranon, K., ... & Wang, Y. (2020). A first look at COVID-19 information and misinformation sharing on Twitter. arXiv preprint arXiv:2003.13907. https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.13907. 

Learn Before

Related