This graph compares the prevalence of Twitter links to low-credibility sources, the NY Times, and the CDC website by tweet, user, retweeting, and bots. The graph illustrates that for the most part, Tweets contained a decent amount of links to credible sites. However, there is a significantly higher proportion of low-credibility sources that were contributed by bots. 

Prevalence of low-credibility information on twitter during the covid-19 outbreak figure explanation

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Prevalence of low-credibility information
- Low-credibility information is not extremely common on Twitter compared to information taken from credible sources such as the NYT or CDC website

Role of social bots
- Bots on social media spread low-credibility information rapidly
- Bots are generally more active in posting and sharing content on social media
- Tweets re-tweeted by bots are more likely to be re-tweeted by other bots
- However, findings show that bots may also be engaging in dissemination of useful and factual information

Prevalence of low-credibility information on twitter during the covid-19 outbreak data analysis

Yang, K. C., Torres-Lugo, C., & Menczer, F. (2020). Prevalence of low-credibility information on twitter during the covid-19 outbreak. arXiv preprint arXiv:2004.14484. https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.14484 

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