News Release 22-Jun-2022

Over 40,000 Twitter users used pandemic misinformation hashtags "Scamdemic" or "Plandemic" in 2020 in over 220,000 tweets - and a fifth of these accounts were suspended by Twitter by January 2021

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PLOS

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Over 40,000 Twitter users used pandemic misinformation hashtags "Scamdemic" or "Plandemic" in 2020 in over 220,000 tweets - and a fifth of these accounts were suspended by Twitter by January 2021

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Article URL: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0268409

Article Title: Analyzing COVID-19 disinformation on Twitter using the hashtags #scamdemic and #plandemic: Retrospective study

Author Countries: U.S.A.

Funding: The authors received no specific funding for this work.

Journal

PLoS ONE

DOI

10.1371/journal.pone.0268409

Article Title

Analyzing COVID-19 disinformation on Twitter using the hashtags #scamdemic and #plandemic: Retrospective study

Article Publication Date

22-Jun-2022

COI Statement

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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