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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 6

Evolution of user clustering in the analyzed DW from February 1, 2020, to May 10, 2020, represented in time slices on the x-axis.

The left subplot illustrates the situation with accumulative slices and a . It shows a clear increase in the relative size of the top 10% of all clusters. This implies a growing participation in the 5G-COVID conspiracy narrative, with more users becoming part of clusters other than the largest cluster. The subplot on the right, displaying temporal slices with a , shows a similar trend. It is noteworthy that the identity of the largest cluster changes over time, i.e., the largest cluster at a given time does not necessarily contain the same users as the largest cluster at a later time.

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0343661.g006