Sharma, K., Seo, S., Meng, C., Rambhatla, S., & Liu, Y. (2020). Covid-19 on social media: Analyzing misinformation in twitter conversations. arXiv preprint arXiv:2003.12309.

COVID-19 ON SOCIAL MEDIA: ANALYZING MISINFORMATION
IN TWITTER CONVERSATIONS

University of Michigan - Ann Arbor

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

Misinformation and disinformation on Twitter related to COVID-19

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 ) 

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