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Therefore, in this paper, we are highly motivated by the following facts. First, fake news detection on social media is still in the early age of development, and many challenging issues remain that require deeper investigation. Hence, it is necessary to discuss potential research directions that...
Similarly, social media information on neurodevelopmental conditions, such as autism and ADHD, have seen a huge increasein viewer traffic. Celebrities, in particular, have used social media platforms to talk about their own diagnoses and urge or inspire others to seek help. For example, Tom Stolt...
This study presents a data analytics framework that aims to analyze topics and sentiments associated with COVID-19 vaccine misinformation in social media. A total of 40,359 tweets related to COVID-19 vaccination were collected between January 2021 and March 2021. Misinformation was...
This mixed-methods study investigates the types of COVID-19 misinformation that have been propagated through social media by US physicians.
To be sure,the spreadof misleading information and rumors on social media is not a new problem. However, not all content moderation approaches have the same effect, and platforms are changing how they address misinformation. For example, X replaced its rumor controls that hadhelped debunkfalse cl...
The spread of misinformation on social media has become a major societal issue during recent years. In this work, we used the ongoing COVID‐19 pandemic as a case study to systematically investigate factors associated with the spread of multi‐topic misinformation related to one event on social ...
topics. However, agri-food mis-dis-malinformation in social media and online digital agricultural communities of practice (CoPs) remains underexplored. There is also a limited theoretical and conceptual foundation for understanding mis-dis-malinformation topics in the agri-food sectors. The study aims...
Covers an interdisciplinary emerging research topic on disinformation and misinformation attracting increasing attention Contains recent advanced social computing, data mining, and machine learning methods Helps to understand the problems and challenges, learn state-of-the-art solutions for their specific needs...
First, social media enables misinformation tospread at a much greater scale, speed, and scope. Second, content that is sensational and likely to trigger emotions ismore likely to go viral on social media, making falsehoods easier to spread than the truth. ...