Ivermectin-thesis

Title

Comparing Texts of Conspiracy Theories and Misinformation by Computational methods: The Case Study of Ivermectin Discussions on Social Media

Presented in Tokyo and Singapore

Part of the results of this study went to 2 international conferences.

1. Yang, M. S. (2023). How Conspiracy Theories and Misinformation Overlapped in the Debate of Covid-19 Alternative Drug: A Case Study of “Ivermectin” on Facebook. 2023 UTOKYO-SNU-NCCU International Symposium, Tokyo, Japan, October 27, 2023.

2. Yang, M. S. (2024). Comparing Texts of Conspiracy Theories and Misinformation by Computational methods: The Case Study of Ivermectin Discussions on Social Media. The third global STS conference, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 23 February, 2024.

Data

Here's the original Facebook data fetched by CrowdTangle API.

Code

"Analysis_LIWC_LDA.R" are the code.