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Community-Based Fact-Checking on Twitter's Birdwatch Platform

Researchers studied how Twitter users engage with the new feature Birdwatch that allows users to address misinformation.

  • RQ 1: What are specific reasons due to which Birdwatch users report tweets?
  • RQ 2: How do Birdwatch notes for tweets categorized as being misleading vs. not misleading differ in terms of their content characteristics? (e.g. sentiment, length)
  • RQ 3: Are tweets from Twitter accounts with certain characteristics (e.g. politicians, accounts with many followers) more likely to be fact-checked on Birdwatch?
  • RQ 4: Which characteristics of Birdwatch notes are associated with greater helpfulness for other users?
  • RQ 5: Does the level of consensus between users vary depending on the level of social influence of the source tweet?

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Updated 2021-06-10

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CSCW (Computer-supported cooperative work)

Computing Sciences

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