The Coronavirus is a Bioweapon: Analysing Coronavirus Fact-Checked Stories

 

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[Submitted on 2 Apr 2021]

The Coronavirus is a Bioweapon: Analysing Coronavirus Fact-Checked Stories

Lynnette Hui Xian Ng, Kathleen M. Carley

The 2020 coronavirus pandemic has heightened the need to flag coronavirus-related misinformation, and fact-checking groups have taken to verifying misinformation on the Internet. We explore stories reported by fact-checking groups PolitiFact, Poynter and Snopes from January to June 2020, characterising them into six story clusters before then analyse time-series and story validity trends and the level of agreement across sites. We further break down the story clusters into more granular story types by proposing a unique automated method with a BERT classifier, which can be used to classify diverse story sources, in both fact-checked stories and tweets.

Subjects:	Social and Information Networks (cs.SI); Computation and Language (cs.CL)
Journal reference:	SBP-Brims 2020 COVID Special Track
Cite as:	arXiv:2104.01215 [cs.SI]
	(or arXiv:2104.01215v1 [cs.SI] for this version)

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From: Lynnette Hui Xian Ng [view email]
[v1] Fri, 2 Apr 2021 19:27:53 UTC (406 KB)

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