COVID-Related Misinformation Migration to BitChute and Odysee
The overwhelming amount of information and misinformation on social media platforms has created a new role that these platforms are inclined to take on, that of the Internet custodian. Mainstream platforms, such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, are under tremendous public and political pressure to...
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| author | Olga Papadopoulou Evangelia Kartsounidou Symeon Papadopoulos |
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| description | The overwhelming amount of information and misinformation on social media platforms has created a new role that these platforms are inclined to take on, that of the Internet custodian. Mainstream platforms, such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, are under tremendous public and political pressure to combat disinformation and remove harmful content. Meanwhile, smaller platforms, such as BitChute and Odysee, have emerged and provide fertile ground for disinformation as a result of their low content-moderation policy. In this study, we analyze the phenomenon of removed content migration from YouTube to BitChute and Odysee. In particular, starting from a list of COVID-related videos removed from YouTube due to violating its misinformation policy, we find that ∼15% (1114 videos) of them migrated to the two low content-moderation platforms under study. This amounts to 4096 videos on BitChute and 1810 on Odysee. We present an analysis of this video dataset, revealing characteristics of misinformation dissemination similar to those on YouTube and other mainstream social media platforms. The BitChute–Odysee COVID-related dataset is publicly available for research purposes on misinformation analysis. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-33537b3007724d9fb3b30d0911fe07cd2023-11-24T14:58:20ZengMDPI AGFuture Internet1999-59032022-11-01141235010.3390/fi14120350COVID-Related Misinformation Migration to BitChute and OdyseeOlga Papadopoulou0Evangelia Kartsounidou1Symeon Papadopoulos2Centre for Research and Technology Hellas—CERTH, Information Technologies Institute—ITI, 6th km Harilaou-Thermi, 57001 Thessaloniki, GreeceCentre for Research and Technology Hellas—CERTH, Information Technologies Institute—ITI, 6th km Harilaou-Thermi, 57001 Thessaloniki, GreeceCentre for Research and Technology Hellas—CERTH, Information Technologies Institute—ITI, 6th km Harilaou-Thermi, 57001 Thessaloniki, GreeceThe overwhelming amount of information and misinformation on social media platforms has created a new role that these platforms are inclined to take on, that of the Internet custodian. Mainstream platforms, such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, are under tremendous public and political pressure to combat disinformation and remove harmful content. Meanwhile, smaller platforms, such as BitChute and Odysee, have emerged and provide fertile ground for disinformation as a result of their low content-moderation policy. In this study, we analyze the phenomenon of removed content migration from YouTube to BitChute and Odysee. In particular, starting from a list of COVID-related videos removed from YouTube due to violating its misinformation policy, we find that ∼15% (1114 videos) of them migrated to the two low content-moderation platforms under study. This amounts to 4096 videos on BitChute and 1810 on Odysee. We present an analysis of this video dataset, revealing characteristics of misinformation dissemination similar to those on YouTube and other mainstream social media platforms. The BitChute–Odysee COVID-related dataset is publicly available for research purposes on misinformation analysis.https://www.mdpi.com/1999-5903/14/12/350content moderationsocial media platformsdisinformation detection |
| spellingShingle | Olga Papadopoulou Evangelia Kartsounidou Symeon Papadopoulos COVID-Related Misinformation Migration to BitChute and Odysee Future Internet content moderation social media platforms disinformation detection |
| title | COVID-Related Misinformation Migration to BitChute and Odysee |
| title_full | COVID-Related Misinformation Migration to BitChute and Odysee |
| title_fullStr | COVID-Related Misinformation Migration to BitChute and Odysee |
| title_full_unstemmed | COVID-Related Misinformation Migration to BitChute and Odysee |
| title_short | COVID-Related Misinformation Migration to BitChute and Odysee |
| title_sort | covid related misinformation migration to bitchute and odysee |
| topic | content moderation social media platforms disinformation detection |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/1999-5903/14/12/350 |
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