People Still Care About Facts: Twitter Users Engage More with Factual Discourse than Misinformation--A Comparison Between COVID and General Narratives on Twitter

Misinformation entails the dissemination of falsehoods that leads to the slow fracturing of society via decreased trust in democratic processes, institutions, and science. The public has grown aware of the role of social media as a superspreader of untrustworthy information, where even pandemics hav...

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Veröffentlicht in:	arXiv.org 2021-09
Hauptverfasser:	Silva, Mirela, Ceschin, Fabrício, Shrestha, Prakash, Brant, Christopher, Shlok Gilda, Fernandes, Juliana, Silva, Catia S, Grégio, André, Oliveira, Daniela, Giovanini, Luiz
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Coronaviruses COVID-19 Digital media False information Public health
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