Objectives: The objectives of this study were to determine the number and types rumors recorded by "Haggak" platform, which was established Jordanian government address published on Internet. aimed reveal motives behind publication these identify targeted parties.
 Methods: survey method adopted for study, utilizing content analysis form as a tool collecting rumors, analyzing their content...

This paper reports the findings of a 606-participant study analyzing perception of, and engagement with, COVID-19 vaccine rumors on efficacy mass immunization effort Twitter. Misperceptions were successfully induced through simple content alterations addition popular anti-COVID-19 hashtags such as #COVIDIOT #covidhoax to otherwise valid Twitter content. Twitter's soft moderation warning label h...

Despite its importance for rumors or innovations propagation, peer-to-peer collaboration, social networking, or marketing, the dynamics of information spreading is not well understood. Since the diffusion depends on the heterogeneous patterns of human behavior and is driven by the participants' decisions, its propagation dynamics shows surprising properties not explained by traditional epidemic...

Human mobility and activity patterns mediate contagion on many levels, including: spatial spread of infectious diseases, diffusion of rumors, and emergence of consensus. These patterns however are often dominated by specific locations and recurrent flows and poorly modeled by the random diffusive dynamics generally used to study them. Here we develop a theoretical framework to analyze contagion...

The number of customers of a service for Internet access from cellular phones in Japan has been explosively increasing for some time. We analyze the relation between the number of customers and the volume of traffic, with a view to finding clues to the structure of human relations among the very large set of potential customers of the service. The traffic data reveals that this structure is a s...