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The breakdown of trusted sources of information is probably one of the most serious problems today, since in the absence of a common ground, it will be impossible to address the problems that trouble our contemporary world. The Covid-19…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-01-03 Henrique A. Tórtura , José F. Fontanari

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

In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in a rapid response from governments and researchers worldwide. As of late 2023, over millions have died as a result of COVID-19, with many COVID-19 survivors going on to experience long-term effects…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-12-25 Yo Yehudi , Lukas Hughes-Noehrer , Carole Goble , Caroline Jay

The devastating health, societal, and economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic illuminate potential dangers of unpreparedness for catastrophic pandemic-scale cyber events. While the nature of these threats differs, the responses to…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-01-20 Adam Shostack , Josiah Dykstra

The COVID-19 pandemic has been damaging to the lives of people all around the world. Accompanied by the pandemic is an infodemic, an abundant and uncontrolled spreading of potentially harmful misinformation. The infodemic may severely…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-04-06 Karandeep Singh , Gabriel Lima , Meeyoung Cha , Chiyoung Cha , Juhi Kulshrestha , Yong-Yeol Ahn , Onur Varol

The COVID-19 Pandemic has left a devastating trail all over the world, in terms of loss of lives, economic decline, travel restrictions, trade deficit, and collapsing economy including real-estate, job loss, loss of health benefits, the…

The outbreak of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic of the new COVID-19 disease (COVID-19 for short) demands empowering existing medical, economic, and social emergency backend systems with data analytics capabilities. An impediment in taking…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-10-14 Aakash Ahmad , Madhushi Bandara , Mahdi Fahmideh , Henderik A. Proper , Giancarlo Guizzardi , Jeffrey Soar

The COVID-19 epidemic is considered as the global health crisis of the whole society and the greatest challenge mankind faced since World War Two. Unfortunately, the fake news about COVID-19 is spreading as fast as the virus itself. The…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Yichuan Li , Bohan Jiang , Kai Shu , Huan Liu

During the COVID-19 pandemic, social media has become a home ground for misinformation. To tackle this infodemic, scientific oversight, as well as a better understanding by practitioners in crisis management, is needed. We have conducted an…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-08-26 Gautam Kishore Shahi , Anne Dirkson , Tim A. Majchrzak

Due to the global pandemic of COVID-19, there is an urgent need to utilize existing technologies to their full potential. Internet of Things (IoT) is regarded as one of the most trending technologies with a great potential in fighting…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-07-27 Mohsin Kamal , Abdulah Aljohani , Eisa Alanazi

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…

Many governments have managed to control their COVID-19 outbreak with a simple message: keep the effective '$R$ number' $R<1$ to prevent widespread contagion and flatten the curve. This raises the question whether a similar policy could…

The global spread of the novel coronavirus is affected by the spread of related misinformation -- the so-called COVID-19 Infodemic -- that makes populations more vulnerable to the disease through resistance to mitigation efforts. Here we…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Kai-Cheng Yang , Francesco Pierri , Pik-Mai Hui , David Axelrod , Christopher Torres-Lugo , John Bryden , Filippo Menczer

The COVID-19 infodemic, characterized by the rapid spread of misinformation and unverified claims related to the pandemic, presents a significant challenge. This paper presents a comparative analysis of the COVID-19 infodemic in the English…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-11-15 Jia Luo , Daiyun Peng , Lei Shi , Didier El Baz , Xinran Liu

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

The rapid outbreak of COVID-19 has caused humanity to come to a stand-still and brought with it a plethora of other problems. COVID-19 is the first pandemic in history when humanity is the most technologically advanced and relies heavily on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-29 S. M. Sadiq-Ur-Rahman Shifath , Mohammad Faiyaz Khan , Md. Saiful Islam

While the world has been combating COVID-19 for over three years, an ongoing "Infodemic" due to the spread of fake news regarding the pandemic has also been a global issue. The existence of the fake news impact different aspect of our daily…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Chih-Yuan Li , Navya Martin Kollapally , Soon Ae Chun , James Geller

The COVID-19 pandemic caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus has spread rapidly worldwide, leading to a global outbreak. Most governments, enterprises, and scientific research institutions are participating in the COVID-19 struggle to curb the…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2021-03-12 Jianguo Chen , Kenli Li , Zhaolei Zhang , Keqin Li , Philip S. Yu

COVID-19 resulted in an infodemic, which could erode public trust, impede virus containment, and outlive the pandemic itself. The evolving and fragmented media landscape is a key driver of the spread of misinformation. Using misinformation…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-05-22 Yan Leng , Yujia Zhai , Shaojing Sun , Yifei Wu , Jordan Selzer , Sharon Strover , Julia Fensel , Alex Pentland , Ying Ding

This paper makes four scientific contributions to the area of misinformation detection and analysis on digital platforms, with a specific focus on investigating how conspiracy theories, fake remedies, and false reports emerge, propagate,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Nirmalya Thakur , Mingchen Shao , Victoria Knieling , Vanessa Su , Andrew Bian , Hongseok Jeong