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Theme Issue: Social Media, Ethics, and COVID-19 Misinformation (37) JMIR Theme Issue: COVID-19 Special Issue (2457) Quality/Credibility of eHealth Information and Trust Issues (542) Infodemiology and Infoveillance (1362) Infoveillance, Infodemiology, Digital Disease Surveillance, Infodemic Management (1048)

Published on in Vol 24, No 8 (2022): August

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/36085, first published .
Assessing the Role of Social Bots During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Infodemic, Disagreement, and Criticism

Assessing the Role of Social Bots During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Infodemic, Disagreement, and Criticism

Assessing the Role of Social Bots During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Infodemic, Disagreement, and Criticism

Authors of this article:

Victor Suarez-Lledo1, 2 Author Orcid Image ;   Javier Alvarez-Galvez1, 2 Author Orcid Image
Article Authors Cited by (12) Tweetations (11) Metrics

Journals

  1. Weng Z, Lin A. Public Opinion Manipulation on Social Media: Social Network Analysis of Twitter Bots during the COVID-19 Pandemic. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 2022;19(24):16376 View
  2. Ruiz-Núñez C, Herrera-Peco I, Campos-Soler S, Carmona-Pestaña Á, Benítez de Gracia E, Peña Deudero J, García-Notario A. Sentiment Analysis on Twitter: Role of Healthcare Professionals in the Global Conversation during the AstraZeneca Vaccine Suspension. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 2023;20(3):2225 View
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  4. Adebesin F, Smuts H, Mawela T, Maramba G, Hattingh M. The Role of Social Media in Health Misinformation and Disinformation During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Bibliometric Analysis. JMIR Infodemiology 2023;3:e48620 View
  5. Alvarez-Galvez J, Cruz F, Troyano J. Discovery and characterisation of socially polarised communities on social media. Scientific Reports 2023;13(1) View
  6. Luo H, Meng X, Zhao Y, Cai M. Rise of social bots: The impact of social bots on public opinion dynamics in public health emergencies from an information ecology perspective. Telematics and Informatics 2023;85:102051 View
  7. Unlu A, Truong S, Sawhney N, Sivelä J, Tammi T. Tracing the dynamics of misinformation and vaccine stance in Finland amid COVID-19. Information, Communication & Society 2024:1 View
  8. Peng H, Zhang J, Huang X, Hao Z, Li A, Yu Z, Yu P. Unsupervised Social Bot Detection via Structural Information Theory. ACM Transactions on Information Systems 2024;42(6):1 View
  9. Suarez-Lledo V, Ortega-Martin E, Carretero-Bravo J, Ramos-Fiol B, Alvarez-Galvez J. Unraveling the use of disinformation hashtags by social bots during the Covid-19 pandemic: a networks analysis and community detection (Preprint). JMIR Infodemiology 2023 View
  10. Unlu A, Truong S, Sawhney N, Tammi T. Unveiling the Veiled Threat: The Impact of Bots on COVID-19 Health Communication. Social Science Computer Review 2024 View

Books/Policy Documents

  1. Archontaki I, Papaevagelou D. Social Media and Modern Society - How Social Media Are Changing the Way We Interact with the World Around. View