Going viral: How a single tweet spawned a COVID-19 conspiracy theory on Twitter
In late March of 2020, a new hashtag, #FilmYourHospital, made its first appearance on social media. The hashtag encouraged people to visit local hospitals to take pictures and videos of empty hospitals to help “prove” that the COVID-19 pandemic is an elaborate hoax. Using techniques from Social Netw...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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SAGE Publishing
2020-07-01
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| Series: | Big Data & Society |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1177/2053951720938405 |