Researchers document 'infodemic' of false information on COVID-19 in first year of pandemic

More than 225,000 tweets with the hashtags #scamdemic and #plandemic led to an “infodemic” of misinformation and disinformation on Twitter during the first year of the pandemic, according to a study by UT Southwestern researchers published in PLOS ONE.


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Source: Phys.org