ArticleJournal of computational social science2020
Misinformation, manipulation, and abuse on social media in the era of COVID-19.
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51 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
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- Heterogeneous update processes shape information cascades in social networks.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Tackling infectious disease outbreak and vaccination misinformation: a community-based strategy in Niger State, Nigeria.BMC health services research · 2025Article
- Targeting anger for COVID-19 prevention: The motivating role of anger on media use and vaccination intention.PloS one · 2025Article
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- News and misinformation consumption: A temporal comparison across European countries.PloS one · 2024Article
- The emotions of Chinese netizens toward the opening-up policies for COVID-19: panic, trust, and acceptance.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
- Examining the association between social media fatigue, cognitive ability, narcissism and misinformation sharing: cross-national evidence from eight countries.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Closing the Barn Door? Fact-Checkers as Retroactive Gatekeepers of the COVID-19 "Infodemic".Journalism & mass communication quarterly · 2023Article
- Where past meets present: Indigenous vaccine hesitancy in Saskatchewan.Medical humanities · 2023Article
- #Coronavirus on TikTok: user engagement with misinformation as a potential threat to public health behavior.JAMIA open · 2023Article
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Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic represented an unprecedented setting for the spread of online misinformation, manipulation, and abuse, with the potential to cause dramatic real-world consequences. The aim of this special issue was to collect contributions investigating issues such as the emergence of infodemics, misinformation, conspiracy theories, automation, and online harassment on the onset of the coronavirus outbreak. Articles in this collection adopt a diverse range of methods and techniques, and focus on the study of the narratives that fueled conspiracy theories, on the diffusion patterns of COVID-19 misinformation, on the global news sentiment, on hate speech and social bot interference, and on multimodal Chinese propaganda. The diversity of the methodological and scientific approaches undertaken in the aforementioned articles demonstrates the interdisciplinarity of these issues. In turn, these crucial endeavors might anticipate a growing trend of studies where diverse theories, models, and techniques will be combined to tackle the different aspects of online misinformation, manipulation, and abuse.
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