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Query: An Exploratory Study of COVID-19 Misinformation on Twitter   During the COVID-19 pandemic, social media has become a home ground for
misinformation. To tackle this infodemic, scientific oversight, as well as a
better understanding by practitioners in crisis management, is needed. We have
conducted an exploratory study into the propagation, authors and content of
misinformation on Twitter around the topic of COVID-19 in order to gain early
insights. We have collected all tweets mentioned in the verdicts of
fact-checked claims related to COVID-19 by over 92 professional fact-checking
organisations between January and mid-July 2020 and share this corpus with the
community. This resulted in 1 500 tweets relating to 1 274 false and 276
partially false claims, respectively. Exploratory analysis of author accounts
revealed that the verified twitter handle(including Organisation/celebrity) are
also involved in either creating (new tweets) or spreading (retweet) the
misinformation. Additionally, we found that false claims propagate faster than
partially false claims. Compare to a background corpus of COVID-19 tweets,
tweets with misinformation are more often concerned with discrediting other
information on social media. Authors use less tentative language and appear to
be more driven by concerns of potential harm to others. Our results enable us
to suggest gaps in the current scientific coverage of the topic as well as
propose actions for authorities and social media users to counter
misinformation.

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The categories of this paper are: comp-gas
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The categories of this paper are: hep-lat
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The categories of this paper are: nlin
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The categories of this paper are: physics
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The categories of this paper are: chem-ph
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The categories of this paper are: nucl-ex
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The categories of this paper are: mtrl-th
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The categories of this paper are: bayes-an
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The categories of this paper are: q-fin
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The categories of this paper are: supr-con
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The categories of this paper are: math-ph
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The categories of this paper are: atom-ph
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The categories of this paper are: gr-qc
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The categories of this paper are: q-alg
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The categories of this paper are: cmp-lg
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The categories of this paper are: stat