- "Detecting COVID-19 Misinformation on Social Media"
- "A first look at COVID-19 information and misinformation sharing on Twitter"
- "Coronavirus goes viral: quantifying the COVID-19 misinformation epidemic on Twitter"
- "Types, Sources, and Claims of COVID-19 Misinformation"
- "The COVID‑19 social media infodemic"
- "Characterizing COVID-19 Misinformation Communities Using a Novel Twitter Dataset"
- "COVID-19 infodemic: More retweets for science-based information on coronavirus than for false information"
- "Prevalence of low-credibility information on twitter during the covid-19 outbreak"
- "Top concerns of tweeters during the COVID-19 pandemic: infoveillance study"
- "Misinformation Warning Labels: Twitter's Soft Moderation Effects on COVID-19 Vaccine Belief Echoes"
- "Mining Trends of COVID-19 Vaccine Beliefs on Twitter with Lexical Embeddings"
- "An exploratory study of COVID-19 misinformation on Twitter"

Literature on COVID-19 Misinformation on Twitter

Twitter has been a main source of misinformation, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. False information regarding ways to prevent the spread of the virus, the origins of the virus, side effects of the vaccine, and etc can all be found on Twitter. 

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Twitter is a social media platform that has also become a major source of information for many people, partly due the popularity among many politicians and celebrities.  

Knowledge sharing on Twitter

COVID-19 Misinformation on Twitter

Articles referenced on Twitter may affect the number of citations on the articles references. 

Citations of References on Twitter

Twitter has been used for academic discussions and research related to COVID-19. 

COVID-19 Research on Twitter

Even prior to COVID-19, researchers have been using Twitter as a platform for knowledge sharing and dissemination of scientific literature and research collaboration and discussion. 

Research on Twitter

Since the initial developmental stages of the COVID-19 vaccines, Twitter has been a platform where people discussed and shared their thoughts and information about the vaccines. Some examples include public announcements such as the content of the vaccine and regional distributions and user expressing their perceptions and sentiments towards the vaccine. 

COVID-19 Vaccine Discussions on Twitter

When addressing and attempting to minimize misinformation on Twitter, one can pair a tweet containing misinformation with another tweet about the same topic that only contains true information. This is a way to provide a soft nudge to Twitter users, informing them of potential false information in tweets they're reading. 

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