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News creation and consumption has been changing since the advent of social media. An estimated 2.95 billion people in 2019 used social media worldwide. The widespread of the Coronavirus COVID-19 resulted with a tsunami of social media. Most…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Azzam Mourad , Ali Srour , Haidar Harmanani , Cathia Jenainatiy , Mohamad Arafeh

The emergence of global health crises, such as COVID-19 and Monkeypox (mpox), has underscored the importance of understanding public sentiment to inform effective public health strategies. This study conducts a comparative sentiment…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Mostafa Mohaimen Akand Faisal , Rabeya Amin Jhuma , Jamini Jasim

The widely spread CoronaVirus Disease (COVID)-19 is one of the worst infectious disease outbreaks in history and has become an emergency of primary international concern. As the pandemic evolves, academic communities have been actively…

The spread of COVID-19 has sparked racism and hate on social media targeted towards Asian communities. However, little is known about how racial hate spreads during a pandemic and the role of counterspeech in mitigating this spread. In this…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-11-12 Bing He , Caleb Ziems , Sandeep Soni , Naren Ramakrishnan , Diyi Yang , Srijan Kumar

One of the defining moments of the year 2020 is the outbreak of Coronavirus Disease (Covid-19), a deadly virus affecting the body's respiratory system to the point of needing a breathing aid via ventilators. As of June 21, 2020 there are…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Isa Inuwa-Dutse , Ioannis Korkontzelos

Although multiple COVID-19 vaccines have been available for several months now, vaccine hesitancy continues to be at high levels in the United States. In part, the issue has also become politicized, especially since the presidential…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-11-11 Yuesheng Luo , Mayank Kejriwal

The COVID-19 epidemic has had a great impact on social media conversation, especially on sites like Twitter, which has emerged as a hub for public reaction and information sharing. This paper deals by analyzing a vast dataset of Twitter…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Nikhil Kumar Rajput , Bhavya Ahuja Grover , Vipin Kumar Rathi , Riya Bansal

The COVID-19 pandemic, which began in December 2019, progressed in a complicated manner and thus caused problems worldwide. Seeking clues to the reasons for the complicated progression is necessary but challenging in the fight against the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-07-17 Vu Tran , Tomoko Matsui

The COVID-19 pandemic led to an infodemic where an overwhelming amount of COVID-19 related content was being disseminated at high velocity through social media. This made it challenging for citizens to differentiate between accurate and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Yida Mu , Ye Jiang , Freddy Heppell , Iknoor Singh , Carolina Scarton , Kalina Bontcheva , Xingyi Song

There has been a huge spike in the usage of social media platforms during the COVID-19 lockdowns. These lockdown periods have resulted in a set of new cybercrimes, thereby allowing attackers to victimise social media users with a range of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Bibhas Sharma , Ishan Karunanayake , Rahat Masood , Muhammad Ikram

People are likely to engage in collective behaviour online during extreme events, such as the COVID-19 crisis, to express their awareness, actions and concerns. Hong Kong has implemented stringent public health and social measures (PHSMs)…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Zhanwei Du , Xiao Zhang , Lin Wang , Sidan Yao , Yuan Bai , Qi Tan , Xiaoke Xu , Sen Pei , Jingyi Xiao , Tim K. Tsang , Qiuyan Liao , Eric Lau , Peng Wu , Chao Gao , Benjamin J Cowling

Public health measures were among the most polarizing topics debated online during the COVID-19 pandemic. Much of the discussion surrounded specific events, such as when and which particular interventions came into practise. In this work,…

This paper describes a large global dataset on people's discourse and responses to the COVID-19 pandemic over the Twitter platform. From 28 January 2020 to 1 June 2022, we collected and processed over 252 million Twitter posts from more…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Raj Kumar Gupta , Ajay Vishwanath , Yinping Yang

The outbreak of the COVID-19 leads to a burst of information in major online social networks (OSNs). Facing this constantly changing situation, OSNs have become an essential platform for people expressing opinions and seeking…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-12-03 Ninghan Chen , Zhiqiang Zhong , Jun Pang

Misinformation/disinformation about COVID-19 has been rampant on social media around the world. In this study, we investigate COVID-19 misinformation/ disinformation on social media in multiple languages - Farsi (Persian), Chinese, and…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-10-16 Golshan Madraki , Isabella Grasso , Jacqueline Otala , Yu Liu , Jeanna Matthews

Over 12 billion doses of COVID-19 vaccines have been administered at the time of writing. However, public perceptions of vaccines have been complex. We analyzed COVID-19 vaccine-related tweets to understand the evolving perceptions of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-22 Hanyin Wang , Meghan R. Hutch , Yikuan Li , Adrienne S. Kline , Sebastian Otero , Leena B. Mithal , Emily S. Miller , Andrew Naidech , Yuan Luo

With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, a number of public policy measures have been developed to curb the spread of the virus. However, little is known about the attitudes towards stay-at-home orders expressed on social media despite the…

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…

World Health Organization (WHO) characterized the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) as a global pandemic on March 11th, 2020. Before this and in late January, more specifically on January 27th, while the majority of the infection cases were…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-16 Negin Karisani , Payam Karisani

Understanding the characteristics of public attention and sentiment is an essential prerequisite for appropriate crisis management during adverse health events. This is even more crucial during a pandemic such as COVID-19, as primary…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Oguzhan Gencoglu , Mathias Gruber