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Queensland researchers analysing coronavirus conspiracy theories warn of social media danger
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-06...archers-analyse-twitter-conspiracies/12303364
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-06...archers-analyse-twitter-conspiracies/12303364
Key points:
- The Responsible Technology report says conspiracy theories have been spread widely on social media
- Report author Timothy Graham says they believe bot-like accounts on Twitter are responsible
- The researchers also found coordinated retweeting of COVID-19 topics
What the researchers discovered was that out of the 30 suspected troll-like clusters they manually analysed, 28 self-identified as pro-Trump, Make America Great Again (MAGA), or QAnon accounts.
A cluster of "broadly pro-Democrat" accounts and a cluster of "Baloch National Movement" accounts made up the other two, the report said.