Purpose The purpose of this study is to examine how factual information and misinformation are being shared on Twitter …, misinformation and disinformation was shared on Twitter. Findings Results found very little misinformation and disinformation …/methodology/approach This study used a mixed methodology approach to analyze tweets with COVID-19-related hashtags. First, a social network …

Purpose Misinformation can have lasting impacts in the management and control of a public emergency. The purpose of … this paper is to demonstrate how misinformation flows and how user characteristics can shape such flows in the context of a … methods approach involving wrangling Twitter data and descriptive analysis to develop and analyse two corpuses of …

Purpose To respond to the COVID-19 “infodemic” and combat fraud and misinformation about the virus, social media …

Purpose The study aims to investigate the predictors of engaging in combat against the spread of misinformation and … misinformation disinformation items, combating or intention to combat against the spread of disinformation. Findings In addition to …

The results indicated that both groups engaged primarily with their supporters on Twitter while avoiding confrontation … almost exclusively from other users with whom they agreed, and disproportionately used Twitter handles of their allies, while … avoiding the use of Twitter handles of their opponents. Practical implications The findings suggest that interest groups’ use …

compare specific social media tools, such as Twitter, Facebook, etc., across institutions. In order to explore fully the …

popular social network, Twitter, is related to their messaging via broadcast media in the form of campaign advertising, in …. Findings Findings demonstrate that social messaging often resembles broadcast advertising, but that Twitter nonetheless …

communities through various methods, including Facebook and Twitter. The purpose of this paper is to examine the varieties in the … use of Facebook and Twitter by local police departments. Design/methodology/approach This study collected all data between … October 1, 2013 and March 31, 2014 from Facebook and Twitter accounts of seven city police departments in the Hampton Roads …

are reviewed through descriptive statistical analysis and social network analysis to map the government's Twitter activity …Purpose – This study aims to explore Twitter use by Korea's central government by classifying the government's Twitter … extracting tweets, follower/following relationships, and hyperlinks for 32 ministries. Network patterns and networking strategies …