Studying reddit: A systematic overview of disciplines, approaches, methods, and ethics

N Proferes, N Jones, S Gilbert, C Fiesler… - Social Media+ …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
This article offers a systematic analysis of 727 manuscripts that used Reddit as a data
source, published between 2010 and 2020. Our analysis reveals the increasing growth in …

Misinformation in and about science

JD West, CT Bergstrom - Proceedings of the National …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Humans learn about the world by collectively acquiring information, filtering it, and sharing
what we know. Misinformation undermines this process. The repercussions are extensive …

Fighting COVID-19 misinformation on social media: Experimental evidence for a scalable accuracy-nudge intervention

G Pennycook, J McPhetres, Y Zhang… - Psychological …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Across two studies with more than 1,700 US adults recruited online, we present evidence
that people share false claims about COVID-19 partly because they simply fail to think …

[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 …

Examining risk and crisis communications of government agencies and stakeholders during early-stages of COVID-19 on Twitter

Y Wang, H Hao, LS Platt - Computers in human behavior, 2021 - Elsevier
During COVID-19, social media has played an important role for public health agencies and
government stakeholders (ie actors) to disseminate information regarding situations, risks …

Conspiracy in the time of corona: automatic detection of emerging COVID-19 conspiracy theories in social media and the news

S Shahsavari, P Holur, T Wang, TR Tangherlini… - Journal of computational …, 2020 - Springer
Rumors and conspiracy theories thrive in environments of low confidence and low trust.
Consequently, it is not surprising that ones related to the COVID-19 pandemic are …

Fake news, rumor, information pollution in social media and web: A contemporary survey of state-of-the-arts, challenges and opportunities

P Meel, DK Vishwakarma - Expert Systems with Applications, 2020 - Elsevier
Internet and social media have become a widespread, large scale and easy to use platform
for real-time information dissemination. It has become an open stage for discussion …

[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 …

Misinformation, disinformation, and online propaganda

AM Guess, BA Lyons - Social media and democracy: The state of …, 2020 - books.google.com
Not long ago, the rise of social media inspired great optimism about its potential for flattening
access to economic and political opportunity, enabling collective action, and facilitating new …

Misinformation in social media: definition, manipulation, and detection

L Wu, F Morstatter, KM Carley, H Liu - ACM SIGKDD explorations …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
The widespread dissemination of misinformation in social media has recently received a lot
of attention in academia. While the problem of misinformation in social media has been …