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We created an archive of misinformation in India on #coronavirus with key patterns of fake content, using debunked news from @AltNews @boomlive_in @IndiaToday @FactlyIndia @QuintFactCheck @vishwasnews

Patterns/links to debunked pieces

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Visual/stylistic patterns:

Superimposing false text under formal-looking/legitimate sources
Data w/o traceable citation
Use of Corona-unconnected people with East Asian features
Use of details – temperatures, public figures
Use of “Breaking News”

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Content patterns of COVID19 misinformation:

Four themes
1. alarmism
2. cure-related
3. culture-related
4. nature & the environment.

While the motives for misinformation can vary, a number of media houses and politicians have promoted false content

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Alarmist messages have three patterns

1. Scale/intensity: that amplify the deaths, intensification

2. Disgust: that show explicit images of dead or unwell persons

3. Conspiracy: that suggest conspiracy or attacking intent relating to disease spread

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COVID19 Misinformation on culture build on existing affiliations/prejudices

1. Spaces: references to spaces used by certain group – eg Mosques
2. Practices: associate group’s practices w/ disease eg eating meat
3. Politicization: on COVID strategy

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Misinformation on COVID cure

1. Alternative medicines: existence of cure in non-western medicine
2. Home remedies: easily available products as home remedies – incl. alcohol/narcotics
3. Conspiracy: Conspiracy theories about existing western medicine

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Misinfo on COVID - Nature & the Environment

1. Animal causes: Claims on animal origins of COVID-19 / vegetarian lifestyle superiority
2. Nature benefits: That overstate environmental improvements because of COVID shutdowns

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We mapped Indian journalists' online footprint to study influence of commentators on Twitter

1. TV and digital journalists do better than print

2. @thewire_in does well

3. TV anchors consistently on top

Details and methodlogy:
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Specifically, @RanaAyyub @khanumarfa @fayedsouza @abhisar_sharma get overall highest engagement, but less followed accounts including @vinodjose @someshjha7 @nit_set @arvindgunasekar @sharmasupriya @milindkhandekar consistently influential/talked about journalists
Twitter universe in India has a high engagement bias towards English-language journalists, who get much more engaged than local language journalists.
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We tracked journalists retweeted by politicians in 2019 to plot preference for journalists / their stories by politicians

We find that @asadowaisi among LS members and @MisaBharti from RS members engage the press the most

Details: joyojeet.people.si.umich.edu/indian-politic…

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Elected Lok Sabha members do not engage significantly with the press, confirming a declining direct engagement of politicians with mainstream media

Parties w/o legislative representation are most engaged with journalists' work eg @_YogendraYadav @kavita_krishnan @Shehla_Rashid
Parties prefer different journalists. @AdityaRajKaul consistent source for BJP politicians, @PankajJainClick is most used source for key AAP leaders.

@rohini_sgh most preferred by non-BJP, @manakgupta @sardanarohit most preferred by BJP
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We visualized which parties engage with tweets from various sources, & effect that has on news propagation. Thread with key trends, Oversimplified, polarization works.

Full details of the study and methodology are available here:
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Sources that are the most engaged by politicians are @ANI @TimesNow @AajTak @NDTV
Sources that get relatively more engaged when a politician retweets are @ANI @ZeeNewsHindi @BBCHindi @OpIndia_com @ndtvindia @ttindia. This is arguably a metric for a source being “more political”

This brilliant graphic by photoshop failures explains
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Think someone is lying to you?

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