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

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(Left) Total number of users and established contacts in each time “slice” and (Right) the corresponding accumulative slices.

Contacts encompass retweets, quotes, and comments, along with the count of distinct users per time segment. The 100-day investigation span, from February 1, 2020, to May 11, 2020, separates into accumulative slices (shown on the right) and temporal slices (shown on the left). Both charts clearly demonstrate a phase transition between slices 360 to 390 and slices 61 to 66, respectively. Additionally, potential predictors emerge between slices 270 and 280 in the left chart. The shaded “Critical Area” corresponds to the initial period of reported arson attacks and real-world consequences.

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0343661.g004