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The 5G COVID-19 Digital Wildfire: An evolving network of Twitter contacts to explore phase transition metaphors in viral misinformation

Fig 3

Three-part depiction of Network G_↓.

The left subfigure presents the global degree distribution, illustrating the range of degree centralities. The central subfigure displays the distribution of cluster sizes across all accumulative slices, with clusters identified via the Leiden algorithm [27]. The rightmost subfigure explores the cluster size distribution across all temporal slices (, chosen for visualization to reveal finer temporal details, with reflecting daily Twitter rhythms). Both the middle and rightmost figures are created by counting the occurrence of clusters with size C in every slice before averaging the number of occurrences by the number of slices in the experiment. Notably, both degree and cluster sizes exhibit visual patterns suggestive of power-law distributions, mirroring those found in other social networks. Note that this assertion is based on exploratory inspection rather than formal statistical tests.

doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0343661.g003