Disinformation and Misinformation on Twitter during the Novel Coronavirus Outbreak
Disinformation and Misinformation on Twitter during the Novel Coronavirus Outbreak
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新型冠状病毒爆发期间 Twitter 上的虚假信息和错误信息
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2020
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Kathleen M. Carley
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Binxuan Huang;Kathleen M. Carley
随着新型冠状病毒在全球范围内传播，公众的恐慌情绪在互联网上日益加剧。我们研究了Twitter上关于COVID-19的公开讨论。我们使用了2020年1月29日至2020年3月4日期间收集的来自1200万用户的6700万条推文的数据集。我们根据用户的国籍、社会身份和政治取向对用户进行分类。我们发现，新闻媒体、政府官员和新闻记者个人发布了大多数有影响力的推文，而最有影响力的推文仍然是由普通用户撰写的。提到“假新闻”网址和虚假信息故事情节的推文也更有可能由普通用户传播。与真实的新闻和正常的推文不同，包含指向“假新闻”网站的网址的推文最有可能在来源国境内被转发，因此不太可能在国际上传播。
As the novel coronavirus spread globally, a growing public panic was expressed over the internet. We examine the public discussion concerning COVID-19 on Twitter. We use a dataset of 67 million tweets from 12 million users collected between January 29, 2020 and March 4, 2020. We categorize users based on their home countries, social identities, and political orientation. We find that news media, government officials, and individual news reporters posted a majority of influential tweets, while the most influential ones are still written by regular users. Tweets mentioning "fake news" URLs and disinformation story-lines are also more likely to be spread by regular users. Unlike real news and normal tweets, tweets containing URLs pointing to "fake news" sites are most likely to be retweeted within the source country and so are less likely to spread internationally.