论文标题
在Covid-19 Infodemation期间意大利Facebook上的信息障碍
Information disorders on Italian Facebook during COVID-19 infodemic
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论文摘要
在这项工作中，我们在最近的Covid-19大流行期间对意大利Facebook上的在线对话进行了探索性分析。我们分析了与病毒起源相关的有争议主题的循环，涉及流行的错误信息目标，例如移民和5G技术。自2020年1月以来，我们收集了意大利语言的1.5 M帖子，并与Covid-19有关，近80K的公共页面和小组共享了四个月的时间。总体而言，与传统新闻网站相比，不可靠的来源共享的潜在有害内容基本上可以忽略不计，并且与有争议的主题讨论了有限的主题，这是有限的参与w.r.r.r.r.r.r.t for pardecic in percement the pardecic in pardecic in pardecic in pardecic in pardecic in pardecic in the Pardecip。此外，我们重点介绍了URL共享扩散网络中的“小世界”效应，这表明在有限的页面中导航的用户几乎可以接触到与大流行有关的整个共享内容池，因此很容易暴露于有害的宣传以及验证有关病毒的信息。
In this work we carry out an exploratory analysis of online conversations on the Italian Facebook during the recent COVID-19 pandemic. We analyze the circulation of controversial topics associated with the origin of the virus, which involve popular targets of misinformation, such as migrants and 5G technology. We collected over 1.5 M posts in Italian language and related to COVID-19, shared by nearly 80k public pages and groups for a period of four months since January 2020. Overall, we find that potentially harmful content shared by unreliable sources is substantially negligible compared to traditional news websites, and that discussions over controversial topics has a limited engagement w.r.t to the pandemic in general. Besides, we highlight a "small-worldness" effect in the URL sharing diffusion network, indicating that users navigating through a limited set of pages could reach almost the entire pool of shared content related to the pandemic, thus being easily exposed to harmful propaganda as well as to verified information on the virus.
