[HTML][HTML] The disaster of misinformation: a review of research in social media

S Muhammed T, SK Mathew - International journal of data science and …, 2022 - Springer
The spread of misinformation in social media has become a severe threat to public interests.
For example, several incidents of public health concerns arose out of social media …

Infodemic and fake news–A comprehensive overview of its global magnitude during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2021: A scoping review

V Balakrishnan, WZ Ng, MC Soo, GJ Han… - International Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
The spread of fake news increased dramatically during the COVID-19 pandemic worldwide.
This study aims to synthesize the extant literature to understand the magnitude of this …

[HTML][HTML] The COVID-19 social media infodemic

M Cinelli, W Quattrociocchi, A Galeazzi… - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
We address the diffusion of information about the COVID-19 with a massive data analysis on
Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, Reddit and Gab. We analyze engagement and interest in the …

Overview of the hasoc track at fire 2019: Hate speech and offensive content identification in indo-european languages

T Mandl, S Modha, P Majumder, D Patel… - Proceedings of the 11th …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
The identification of Hate Speech in Social Media is of great importance and receives much
attention in the text classification community. There is a huge demand for research for …

[HTML][HTML] Bots and misinformation spread on social media: Implications for COVID-19

MK Himelein-Wachowiak, S Giorgi, A Devoto… - Journal of medical …, 2021 - jmir.org
As of March 2021, the SARS-CoV-2 virus has been responsible for over 115 million cases of
COVID-19 worldwide, resulting in over 2.5 million deaths. As the virus spread exponentially …

[HTML][HTML] Accuracy prompts are a replicable and generalizable approach for reducing the spread of misinformation

G Pennycook, DG Rand - Nature communications, 2022 - nature.com
Interventions that shift users attention toward the concept of accuracy represent a promising
approach for reducing misinformation sharing online. We assess the replicability and …

Characterizing covid-19 misinformation communities using a novel twitter dataset

SA Memon, KM Carley - arXiv preprint arXiv:2008.00791, 2020 - arxiv.org
From conspiracy theories to fake cures and fake treatments, COVID-19 has become a hot-
bed for the spread of misinformation online. It is more important than ever to identify methods …

Overview of the hasoc subtrack at fire 2021: Hate speech and offensive content identification in english and indo-aryan languages and conversational hate speech

S Modha, T Mandl, GK Shahi, H Madhu… - Proceedings of the 13th …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
The HASOC track is dedicated to the evaluation of technology for finding Offensive
Language and Hate Speech. HASOC is creating a multilingual data corpus mainly for …

[HTML][HTML] The impact of misinformation on the COVID-19 pandemic

MMF Caceres, JP Sosa, JA Lawrence… - AIMS Public …, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Since the inception of the current pandemic, COVID-19 related misinformation has played a
role in defaulting control of the situation. It has become evident that the internet, social …

FakeCovid--A multilingual cross-domain fact check news dataset for COVID-19

GK Shahi, D Nandini - arXiv preprint arXiv:2006.11343, 2020 - arxiv.org
In this paper, we present a first multilingual cross-domain dataset of 5182 fact-checked news
articles for COVID-19, collected from 04/01/2020 to 15/05/2020. We have collected the fact …