Categorising Fine-to-Coarse Grained Misinformation: An Empirical Study of COVID-19 Infodemic

Understand

The spreading COVID-19 misinformation over social media already draws the attention of many researchers.

• According to Google Scholar, about 26000 COVID-19 related misinformation studies have been published to date.
• Most of these studies focusing on 1) detect and/or 2) analysing the characteristics of COVID-19 related misinformation.
• However, the study of the social behaviours related to misinformation is often neglected.