High uptake of vaccinations is essential in fighting infectious diseases, including severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) that causes the ongoing …
The fear of the unknown combined with the isolation generated by COVID-19 has created a fertile environment for strong disinformation, otherwise known as conspiracy theories, to …
The COVID-19 pandemic has produced a flurry of online activity on social media sites. As such, analysis of social media data during the COVID-19 pandemic can produce unique …
Background The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and the consequent “infodemic” increased concerns about Twitter's role in advancing antivaccination messages, even before …
Objective We examine individuals' ability to detect social bots among Twitter personas, along with participant and persona features associated with that ability. Background Social …
Objective We test the effects of three aids on individuals' ability to detect social bots among Twitter personas: a bot indicator score, a training video, and a warning. Background …
I Cruickshank - 2020 - reports-archive.adm.cs.cmu.edu
Real-world, social phenomena produce various types of data, like explicit networks or user- emitted text. When different sets of data describe the same entities, the data is termed multi …
M Babcock, R Villa-Cox, KM Carley - … , and Fake News in Social Media …, 2020 - Springer
It has become apparent that high-profile Twitter conversations are polluted by individuals and organizations spreading misinformation on the social media site. In less directly political …
In this study we analyzed patterns of external website usage on Twitter during the COVID-19 pandemic. We used a multi-view clustering technique, which is able to incorporate multiple …