The observatory produces weekly reports on the spread of COVID-19 misinformation and their corresponding fact-checks on Twitter. We apply automatic methods to collect fact-checked and misinforming content from the CoronaVirusFacts/DatosCoronaVirus Alliance Database and track this data on Twitter.
We track what types of misinformation about the COVID-19 pandemic is spread and observe how misinformation spreads in comparison to its corrective content.
We identify the most shared misinformation content and fact-checking over time.
Using automated methods, we identify the demographics of the users that share misinformation and fact-checks.
Twitter COVID-19 Misinformation Report 145 Misinformation spread about Vaccine increasing
Between Monday 12 September 2022 and Monday 19 September 2022, misinformation about Vaccine has increasead whereas misinformation about Other has reduced. The Fact-checking Observatory is an automatic service that collects misinforming content on Twitter using URLs that have been identified as potential misinformation by fact-checking websites. Using this data, the Fact-checking Observatory automatically generates weekly reports that updates the state of misinformation spread of fact-checked misinformation on Twitter.
Twitter COVID-19 Misinformation Report 145 Misinformation spread about Vaccine increasing
Twitter COVID-19 Misinformation Report 144 Increase in misinformation spread about Conspiracy Theory
Twitter COVID-19 Misinformation Report 143 Misinformation spread about Other increasing
See all the COVID-19 ReportsTwitter Russo-Ukrainian War Misinformation Report 45 Misinformation spread about Russo-Ukrainian war increasing
The Fact-checking Observatory is an automatic service that collects misinforming content on Twitter using URLs that have been identified as potential misinformation by fact-checking websites. Using this data, the Fact-checking Observatory automatically generates weekly reports that updates the state of misinformation spread of fact-checked misinformation on Twitter. This analysis is limited to URLs identified by Fact-checking organisations. The collected data only consist of non-blocked Twitter content and may be incomplete.
Twitter Russo-Ukrainian War Misinformation Report 45 Misinformation spread about Russo-Ukrainian war increasing
Twitter Russo-Ukrainian War Misinformation Report 44 Rise in Russo-Ukrainian war misinforming posts
Twitter Russo-Ukrainian War Misinformation Report 43 Rise in Russo-Ukrainian war misinforming posts
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