Twitter and Facebook posts about COVID-19 are less likely to spread misinformation compared to other health topics

• David A. Broniatowski ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: broniatowski@gwu.edu

  Affiliations Department of Engineering Management and Systems Engineering, School of Engineering and Applied Science, The George Washington University, Washington, DC, United States of America, Institute for Data, Democracy and Politics, The George Washington University, Washington, DC, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3302-9497

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• Daniel Kerchner,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation George Washington University Libraries, The George Washington University, Washington, DC, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5921-2193

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• Fouzia Farooq,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States of America

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• Xiaolei Huang,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Computer Science, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN, United States of America

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• Amelia M. Jamison,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: Department of Health, Behavior and Society, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

  Affiliation Department of Family Science, Center for Health Equity, School of Public Health, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States of America

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• Mark Dredze,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Computer Science, Whiting School of Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

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• Sandra Crouse Quinn,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Family Science, Center for Health Equity, School of Public Health, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States of America

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• John W. Ayers

  Roles Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases and Global Public Health, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States of America

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