论文标题
人们仍然关心事实：Twitter用户参与事实话语而不是错误信息，这是在Twitter上的共同叙事和一般叙述之间的比较
People Still Care About Facts: Twitter Users Engage More with Factual Discourse than Misinformation--A Comparison Between COVID and General Narratives on Twitter
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论文摘要
错误的信息需要使虚假的传播，从而通过减少对民主进程，制度和科学的信任来导致社会缓慢破裂。公众已经意识到社交媒体是不可信的信息的超级传播者的作用，即使大流行也没有免疫。在本文中，我们关注于19个错误信息，并检查了210万个推文的子集，以理解错误的信息作为参与，推文内容（Covid-19-与非covid-19与非covid-19）的函数和真实性（误导性或事实）。使用相关分析，我们显示了126多个特征中最相关的特征子集，这些功能与错误信息或事实最密切相关。我们发现（i）事实推文，无论与共同相关是否相关，都比误解推文更具吸引力； （ii）与参与度最密切相关的特征因推文的真实性和内容而异。
Misinformation entails the dissemination of falsehoods that leads to the slow fracturing of society via decreased trust in democratic processes, institutions, and science. The public has grown aware of the role of social media as a superspreader of untrustworthy information, where even pandemics have not been immune. In this paper, we focus on COVID-19 misinformation and examine a subset of 2.1M tweets to understand misinformation as a function of engagement, tweet content (COVID-19- vs. non-COVID-19-related), and veracity (misleading or factual). Using correlation analysis, we show the most relevant feature subsets among over 126 features that most heavily correlate with misinformation or facts. We found that (i) factual tweets, regardless of whether COVID-related, were more engaging than misinformation tweets; and (ii) features that most heavily correlated with engagement varied depending on the veracity and content of the tweet.
