The COVID-19 Social Media Infodemic Reflects Uncertainty and State-Sponsored Propaganda
Significant attention has been devoted to determining the credibility of online misinformation about the COVID-19 pandemic on social media.
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In 2015, the dynamic algorithmic pricing used by the Princeton Review was found to be charging Asian-Americans higher prices for their test-preparation services twice as often as non-Asian customers...
Content analysis of Persian/Farsi Tweets during COVID-19 pandemic in Iran using NLP
As COVID-19 has rapidly and widely spread in the United States and globally, this now pandemic is shaking up all aspects of daily life in all countries affected in an unforeseen manner.
Quantifying COVID-19 content in the online health opinion war using machine learning
A huge amount of potentially dangerous COVID-19 misinformation is appearing online. Here we use machine learning to quantify COVID-19 content among online opponents of establishment health guidance,...
The online competition between pro- and anti-vaccination views
Social media companies are struggling to control online health dis- and misinformation, for example, during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. Online narratives tend to be nurtured in in-built community...
Misinformation on the Facebook News Feed: Experimental Evidence
The proliferation of misinformation and fake news represents a pressing policy issue, with potentially deleterious consequences for democracies around the world.
Detecting East Asian Prejudice on Social Media
The outbreak of COVID-19 has raised concerns about the spread of Sinophobia and other forms of East Asian prejudice across the world.
In October 2018 the major online platforms signed the European Code of Practice on Disinformation, a...
Hate multiverse spreads malicious COVID-19 content online beyond individual platform control
Controlling the spread of COVID-19 misinformation and its weaponization against certain demographics (e.g. anti-Asian) -- in particular, by the online hate community of neo-Nazis and other extremists...
Pro-Russian Biases in Anti-Chinese Tweets about the Novel Coronavirus
The recent COVID-19 pandemic, which was first detected in Wuhan, China, has been linked to increased anti-Chinese sentiment in the United States.