This Working Group is comprised of a team of computational social scientists, psychologists, and public health specialists who specialize in the analysis of social media data and machine learning. The group predicts the spread of COVID-19 disinformation in social media networks. Leveraging social science, public health, and computer science, it will correlate group-level psychological traits with the willingness to spread disinformation related to COVID-19 across social media.
CONVERGE is funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation, Program on Humans, Disasters, and the Built Environment (Award #1841338). Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the NSF.