Types of misinformation on Twitter

1. The indirect and direct impacts, such as instances of 5G towers being burned down due to conspiracy theories linking them to Coronavirus (Parveen and Waterson, 2020)
2. The misinformation surrounding COVID-19 pandemic is especially damaging, since any mis-steps can pose a serious public health risk by leading to exponential spread of the disease and accidental death due to self-medication (Vigdor, 2020 ) 

Impacts of misinformation during the Pandemic

Twitter like other social networks is not immune to mis/dis information.

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In 2019 Twitter has reached 330 million users and 59% of Twitter users find it a useful means of sharing health care information. According to Twitter there is a COVID-19 related Tweet in every 45 milliseconds and coronavirus is the second most used hashtag of 2020. On 29th April 2020 Twitter announced its real-time data to be made accessible by researchers and developers to study COVID-19 tweets .

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