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Coronavirus, conspiracies and cries of election fraud marked 2020 as the year of the infodemic. But the worst may be yet to come RMIT ABC Fact Check TueTuesday 22 updated WedWednesday 23 Misinformation has spread like wildfire in 2020. ( Share Print text only Cancel Bill Gates became a supervillain, arson was blamed for catastrophic bushfires and dead people were said to have cast votes in the US presidential election: never before has there been a year so polluted by misinformation as has 2020. When the director-general of the World Health Organisation declared in February that the world was...

Our analysis showed Liberal state MP Tim Smith was instrumental in making the #DictatorDan hashtag go viral. It was in low circulation until May 17, when Smith created a Twitter poll asking whether Andrews should be labelled “Dictator Dan” or “Chairman Dan”. Subsequent growth of #DictatorDan activity was driven largely by far-right commentator Avi Yemini and his followers, along with a key group for fringe right-wing politics in Australian Twitter. Meanwhile, #DanLiedPeopleDied went viral later on August 12, sparked by another right-wing group led by a handful of outspoken members. T...

Date Time How COVID-19 polarised politics: #IStandWithDan versus #DictatorDan A QUT study of two interrelated Twitter hashtag campaigns in relation to the Victorian Premier Dan Andrews’ handling of the COVID-19 second wave found the activity was driven by a “small, hyper-partisan core of highly active participants” and not bot accounts. More than half of the top 50 Twitter accounts tweeting the anti-Dan hashtags qualified as anonymous “sockpuppet” accounts compared to one third of the #IStandWithDan accounts. A sockpuppet account is defined as human-managed with fabricated or anony...