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An exploratory study of COVID-19 misinformation on Twitter [PDF]
Online Soc. Networks Media, 2020 During the COVID-19 pandemic, social media has become a home ground for misinformation. To tackle this infodemic, scientific oversight, as well as a better understanding by practitioners in crisis management, is needed.
G. Shahi, A. Dirkson, T. Majchrzak
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COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy on Social Media: Building a Public Twitter Data Set of Antivaccine Content, Vaccine Misinformation, and Conspiracies [PDF]
JMIR Public Health and Surveillance, 2021 Background False claims about COVID-19 vaccines can undermine public trust in ongoing vaccination campaigns, posing a threat to global public health. Misinformation originating from various sources has been spreading on the web since the beginning of the
Goran Murić, Yusong Wu, Emilio Ferrara
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Non-central panorama indoor dataset
Data in Brief, 2022 Omnidirectional images are one of the main sources of information for learning-based scene understanding algorithms. However, annotated datasets of omnidirectional images cannot keep the pace of these learning-based algorithms development.
Bruno Berenguel-Baeta +2 more
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Twitter as a Polarized Space for Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) in Turkey [PDF]
İnsan & Toplum, 2020 Research on the coverage of CSOs on social media and the use of social media by CSOs has been gaining momentum. To contribute to this line of research, this study investigates the coverage of civil society organizations (CSO) on Twitter in Turkey by ...
Sema Akboğa, Engin Arık
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Revista Portuguesa de Pneumologia, 2012 The use of online social networks among physicians and physicians-in-training is similar to that of the general population. Patients also use online social networks to communicate and exchange information with other patients who have similar conditions and with health professionals, something which is not free from ethical problems. In any case, online
E. Torrente, T. Martí, J. Escarrabill
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$1.00 per RT #BostonMarathon #PrayForBoston: analyzing fake content on Twitter [PDF]
, 2013 This study found that 29% of the most viral content on Twitter during the Boston bombing crisis were rumors and fake content.AbstractOnline social media has emerged as one of the prominent channels for dissemination of information during real world ...
Ponnurangam Kumaraguru +2 more
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Jurnal Pertahanan: Media Informasi tentang Kajian dan Strategi Pertahanan yang Mengedepankan Identity, Nasionalism & Integrity, 2023 In our digital era, social media, particularly Twitter, has become a global phenomenon with 556 million monthly active users worldwide. In Indonesia, Twitter has 24 million active users and is ranked fifth globally.
Saronto Saronto +2 more
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SSRN Electronic Journal, 2023 Social media, especially Twitter, plays an increasingly important role among researchers in showcasing and promoting their research. Does Twitter affect academic citations? Making use of Twitter activity about columns published on VoxEU, a renowned online platform for economists, we develop an instrumental variable strategy to show that Twitter ...
Ho Fai Chan +3 more
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Coronavirus Goes Viral: Quantifying the COVID-19 Misinformation Epidemic on Twitter
Cureus, 2020 Background Since the beginning of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) epidemic, misinformation has been spreading uninhibited over traditional and social media at a rapid pace. We sought to analyze the magnitude of misinformation that is being spread
Ramez Kouzy +9 more
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Large Scale Crowdsourcing and Characterization of Twitter Abusive Behavior [PDF]
International Conference on Web and Social Media, 2018 In recent years online social networks have suffered an increase in sexism, racism, and other types of aggressive and cyberbullying behavior, often manifesting itself through offensive, abusive, or hateful language.
Antigoni-Maria Founta +8 more
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