Investigation of COVID-19 Misinformation in Arabic on Twitter: Content Analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The COVID-19 pandemic has been occurring concurrently with an infodemic of misinformation about the virus. Spreading primarily on social media, there has been a significant academic effort to understand the English side of this infodemic. However, much less attention has been paid to the Arabic side.

Objective

There is an urgent need to examine the scale of Arabic COVID-19 disinformation. This study empirically examines how Arabic speakers use specific hashtags on Twitter to express antivaccine and antipandemic views to uncover trends in their social media usage. By exploring this topic, we aim to fill a gap in the literature that can help understand conspiracies in Arabic around COVID-19.

Methods

This study used content analysis to understand how 13 popula

SUBMITTER: Al-Rawi A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9327499 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature