Journal Articles & Working Papers

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Adapting and Extending a Typology to Identify Vaccine Misinformation on Twitter

One of the greatest risks to human health comes from the deluge of misleading, conflicting, and manipulated information currently available online

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Not just conspiracy theories: Vaccine opponents and pro-ponents add to the COVID-19 ‘infodemic’ on Twitter

In February 2020, the World Health Organization announced an ‘infodemic’ that accompanied the global pandemic of COVID-19.

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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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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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The Twitter Social Mobility Index: Measuring Social Distancing Practices from Geolocated Tweets

The outbreak of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, a Coronavirus that causes the disease COVID-19, has caused a pandemic on a scale unseen in a generation.

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Chinese social media suggest decreased vaccine acceptance in China: An observational study on Weibo following the 2018 Changchun Changsheng vaccine incident

Vaccine acceptance is a crucial public health issue, which has been exacerbated by the use of social media to spread content opposing vaccination.

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Surfacing the Submerged State: Operational Transparency Increases Trust in and Engagement with Government

As trust in government reaches historic lows, frustration with government performance approaches record highs.