Russia and China May Drive Most COVID Fake News on Twitter

Nearly Half Of Twitter Accounts Spreading Coronavirus Misinformation Are Bots Accounts, Researchers Say

According to researchers, nearly half of the Twitter accounts spreading COVID-19 misinformation are fake accounts ran by bots.

Since January, more than 200 million tweets are in the public domain addressing the coronavirus, says this article by CBS.

45% of these tweets are by computerized robot accounts, according to researchers.

“We do know that it looks like it’s a propaganda machine, and it definitely matches the Russian and Chinese playbooks, but it would take a tremendous amount of resources to substantiate that”, says Kathleen Carley, a professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University, as quoted by NPR.

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