Abstract

Shortly after the outbreak of the novel coronavirus disease (Covid-19), the United Nations declared an infodemic due to an unprecedented amount of false information spreading about Covid-19. A study made by the center for countering digital hate found out that twelve individuals, referred to as Disinformation Dozen (Disinfo12), were responsible for 65% of Covid-19 misinformation circulating on social media. Given the Disinfo12’s detrimental impact in spreading misinformation, in this work, we perform an exploratory analysis on Disinfo12’s activity on Twitter aiming at identifying their sharing strategies, favorite sources of information, and potential secondary actors contributing to the proliferation of questionable narratives. In our study, we uncovered the distinctive facets that allowed Disinfo12 to act as primary sources of information, and we recognized that YouTube represent one of the favorite information …

Metadata

publication

Proceedings of the 14th ACM Web Science Conference 2022, 348-358, 2022

year

2022

publication date

2022/6/26

authors

Gianluca Nogara, Padinjaredath Suresh Vishnuprasad, Felipe Cardoso, Omran Ayoub, Silvia Giordano, Luca Luceri

link

https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3501247.3531573

resource_link

https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3501247.3531573

book

Proceedings of the 14th ACM Web Science Conference 2022

pages

348-358