COVID misinfo is the biggest challenge for Twitter’s Birdwatch program, data shows

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COVID misinfo is the biggest challenge for Twitter’s Birdwatch program, data shows
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in January 2021, and marks a step up for the platform’s efforts to reduce the spread of misinformation on the platform. But as the scheme expands, data reviewed bysuggests that the most common topics being fact-checked are already covered by Twitter’s misinformation policies, raising new questions as to the overall impact of the program.

To do this, we discarded conjunction words like “and,” “but,” “there,” “which,” and “about” and excluded words that were frequently used in the process of constructing a fact check, such as “tweet,” “source,” “claims,” “evidence,” and “article.” We also ignored words inside URLs — which Twitter includes as part of the note text — and reduced plurals to their singular form .

Data shows that Birdwatch users have spent a lot of time reviewing tweets related to COVID, vaccination, and the government’s response to the pandemic. The word frequency list shows us that “COVID” is the most common subject term, with the related term “vaccine” ranking at number three on the list. in creating the novel coronavirus or shedding doubt on the safety and effectiveness of vaccines as they became available.like ivermectinWhile some of the more outlandish COVID myths are easy to fact-check — like the idea that the virus was a hoax, is mostly harmless, or gets spread by 5G towers — other claims about transmission, severity, and mortality can be harder to definitively correct.

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