Deploying Artificial Intelligence to Combat Covid-19 Disinformation on Social Media

Grant Agency: Digital Citizenship Cooperation Program, Minister of Canadian Heritage

Awarded: 2020-2021

Principal Investigator: Richard Frank

Co-Principal Investigator: Barry Cartwright

The following datasets were collected, manually coded, and used for machine learning purposes:

- 250 Facebook Posts

- Larger Facebook Real News Posts

- Larger Facebook Fake News Posts

 

Reddit

- 250 Reddit Posts

- Larger Reddit Fake News Posts

- Larger Reddit Real News Posts

 

Twitter

- 1000 Twtiter Posts

- 131k Twitter Posts

 

Merged

- 800 Mixed Coded Data

 

Final Report

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