This is horrendous. The report below was compiled and used at the very beginning of it all in early 2020.
Joe Rogan’s Podcast hosted Mike Benz who discusses this report in detail starting at approximately the 1:15 mark
Executive Summary.
This report represents a preliminary analysis of data analyzed by Graphika on the global online conversation surrounding the coronavirus pandemic. The unprecedented volume of misinformation around the coronavirus, spreading both across platforms and across the globe, has yielded unique network structures and has illustrated the virality of mis- and disinformation in crisis situations. A global cacophony of voices is communicating conflicting and politicized information about the coronavirus, further amplified by the organic spread of misinformation from audiences eager to consume and share updates and advice on the coronavirus in a time of mass uncertainty.
In crisis situations, experts warn that online activity can mimic signals that would ordinarily be deemed suspicious: mass flooding of topic specific content, consistent and frequent posting, viral hashtags, and fluctuations in new followers online as people scramble for more sources of information.1 In conjunction with these behaviors, the prolonged uncertainty of the spread and duration of the virus has created a vast and complex network of coronavirus-related mis- and disinformation.
This report covers four maps in our growing COVID-19 issue portfolio: three of these form the beginning of a “time series” of maps. Shown below, the series is a set of large-scale and granular network maps seeded on the same mainstream signals associated with general conversation around coronavirus, with data collected at monthly intervals between December 19, 2019 and March 17, 2020. These maps form the basis of a chronological series that allows rigorous analysis of structural changes to this online conversation
