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Twitter and the Spread of Early COVID-19 Misinformation
Research on tweets from the first half of 2020 found that the words ‘Us’, ‘India,’ ‘Wuhan,’ ‘Coronavirus,’ ‘China,’ and ‘Might’ are commonly used words when it is the case of misinforming tweets. Most tweets were sent in March, around the beginning of the pandemic. Misinforming tweets gained a large amount of spreading, regardless of factuality or popularity.
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Updated 2022-08-30
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Identifying Misinformation through Visualization
Social psychology
Psychology
Social Science
Empirical Science
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