Analyzing the Spread of Misinformation on Social Networks: A Process and Software Architecture for Detection and Analysis

The rapid dissemination of misinformation on social networks, particularly during public health crises like the COVID-19 pandemic, has become a significant concern. This study investigates the spread of misinformation on social network data using social network analysis (SNA) metrics, and more gener...

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Veröffentlicht in:Computers (Basel) 2023-11, Vol.12 (11), p.232
Hauptverfasser: Duzen, Zafer, Riveni, Mirela, Aktas, Mehmet S
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Zusammenfassung:The rapid dissemination of misinformation on social networks, particularly during public health crises like the COVID-19 pandemic, has become a significant concern. This study investigates the spread of misinformation on social network data using social network analysis (SNA) metrics, and more generally by using well known network science metrics. Moreover, we propose a process design that utilizes social network data from Twitter, to analyze the involvement of non-trusted accounts in spreading misinformation supported by a proof-of-concept prototype. The proposed prototype includes modules for data collection, data preprocessing, network creation, centrality calculation, community detection, and misinformation spreading analysis. We conducted an experimental study on a COVID-19-related Twitter dataset using the modules. The results demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach and process steps, and provides valuable insight into the application of network science metrics on social network data for analysing various influence-parameters in misinformation spreading.
ISSN:2073-431X
2073-431X
DOI:10.3390/computers12110232