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Complex systems, wicked problems. Society, technology, science and more. @UNC professor. @NYTimes columnist. My newsletter is @insight: http://www.theinsight.org 

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    1. Kate Starbird‏Verified account @katestarbird 24 Mar 2020

      We (my @uw_cip colleagues and I) have been collecting and analyzing tweets related to COVID-19 — focusing on how social media influence and scientific expertise/findings shape information flow (and sometimes spread misleading information).pic.twitter.com/DCXrCM2dKN

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    2. Kate Starbird‏Verified account @katestarbird 24 Mar 2020

      This more focused graph shows how a misleading tweet about the “basic reproduction number” or contagiousness of #COVID-19 (R0) went viral. It reveals (around 5:30am) how quote tweets from high-follower accounts led to rapid spread.pic.twitter.com/eGo8iJn7YE

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    3. Kate Starbird‏Verified account @katestarbird 24 Mar 2020

      The original tweet was a sensationally-worded tweet about an early finding that R0 = 3.8. Retweets of that tweet are blue circles. Quotes of that tweet are orange diamonds. Retweets of quote tweets are green circles. X-axis is time. Y-axis is cumulative spread (RTs + quotes).

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    4. Kate Starbird‏Verified account @katestarbird 24 Mar 2020

      When we look at who some of those quote-tweeting accounts are, we can see how social media influencers — including tech bros and thought leaders, social media all-stars, celebrities and even journalists — all played a role in making this misleading tweet go viral.

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    5. Kate Starbird‏Verified account @katestarbird 24 Mar 2020

      This graph was created in Jupyter Notebooks using Python and Bokeh Plots. The graphing technique (plotting cumulative tweets over time w/ follower counts) was originally developed by Stanford PhD student Kaitlyn Zhou (during her time as a UW student) and my colleague @emmaspiro.

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    6. Kate Starbird‏Verified account @katestarbird 24 Mar 2020

      And I adapted the original graph type to Bokeh plots with inspiration from @jsale.

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    7. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 25 Mar 2020
      Replying to @katestarbird

      I know the tweet in question and it was certainly wrong, but there is so much misinformation that’s top down in this current environment that came from traditional sources. How do we put that in our research?

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      zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 25 Mar 2020
      Replying to @zeynep @katestarbird

      I mean the tweet in question was sensationalist, but it was less wrong compared to a lot of traditional media at the time. It didn’t even get really the facts wrong it was just sensationalist. People who listened to it probably fared better than those who followed regular media.

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        2. Kate Starbird‏Verified account @katestarbird 25 Mar 2020
          Replying to @zeynep

          There’s an inherent challenge for studying crisis rumors in “simply” identifying what is a rumor and what isn’t — where veracity itself is dynamic. A) rumors sometimes turn out to be true; B) something false one day may be true later; C) the best info today may be false tomorrow.

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        3. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 25 Mar 2020
          Replying to @katestarbird

          Right but that wasn’t a rumor. It was just sensationally worded.

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