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Deep Negative Effects of Misleading Information about COVID-19 on Populations Through Twitter

Ingénierie des systèmes d information2022Vol. 27(2), pp. 185–192

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Mohamed Chakraoui, Naoual Mouhni, Abderrafiaa Elkalay, Mohamed Nemiche

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If pandemics kill humans and spread too quickly, misinformation is another scourge that puts people in danger. Health is what a person needs the most in the world to strive for great wealth and a bright future. The novel Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) outbreak has threatened massively human health in the 21 century (precisely in 2020). The spreading of COVID-19 pandemic press specialists to do more efforts to find a cure. The same reason makes people perform billions of queries on search engines and social networks about comprehending the origin of the virus, the spread mechanisms and existent cures. The virus that causes the pandemic is the new Coronavirus appeared in a unique market in Wuhan, in China in December 2019. This new Coronavirus is named coronavirus (COVID-19). Throughout the ages, mankind has experienced many epidemics, but the distinction of the 21 century is technology development. The spread of misinformation is faster than that of the pandemic. With the advent of big data, we can analyze the huge information shared in a second in social networks and it contains millions of misinformation. In this current, we analyze the belief frequency of misinformation in three languages, English, French and Arabic shared on Twitter users' timelines. Misinformation urges people against vaccination in different ways; many people are spreading misinformation to be famous or make money through views and sharing. Scientists and Journalists are concerned to reduce the likelihood of susceptibility to misinformation by complying with WHO guidance measures in social networks.

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