Alexandros Efstratiou presented a terrific paper from UCL, Binghamton U and the fine folks at iDrama lab, which helps unpack the spread of COVID-19 misinfo. We all know that misinformation about COVID flooded the internet, but this study examines how scientific literature was used and misused during the pandemic and how it spread on Twitter. (
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arXiv.org
"Here's Your Evidence": False Consensus in Public Twitter Discussions of COVID-19 Science
The COVID-19 pandemic brought about an extraordinary rate of scientific papers on the topic that were discussed among the general public, although ...