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title = "Narrative Style and the Spread of Health Misinformation on {T}witter",
author = "Ganti, Achyutarama and
Hussein, Eslam Ali Hassan and
Wilson, Steven and
Ma, Zexin and
Zhao, Xinyan",
editor = "Bouamor, Houda and
Pino, Juan and
Bali, Kalika",
booktitle = "Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023",
month = dec,
year = "2023",
address = "Singapore",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2023.findings-emnlp.282/",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2023.findings-emnlp.282",
pages = "4266--4282",
abstract = "Using a narrative style is an effective way to communicate health information both on and off social media. Given the amount of misinformation being spread online and its potential negative effects, it is crucial to investigate the interplay between narrative communication style and misinformative health content on user engagement on social media platforms. To explore this in the context of Twitter, we start with previously annotated health misinformation tweets (n $\approx$15,000) and annotate a subset of the data (n=3,000) for the presence of narrative style. We then use these manually assigned labels to train text classifiers, experimenting with supervised fine-tuning and in-context learning for automatic narrative detection. We use our best model to label remaining portion of the dataset, then statistically analyze the relationship between narrative style, misinformation, and user-level features on engagement, finding that narrative use is connected to increased tweet engagement and can, in some cases, lead to increased engagement with misinformation. Finally, we analyze the general categories of language used in narratives and health misinformation in our dataset."
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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Narrative Style and the Spread of Health Misinformation on Twitter
%A Ganti, Achyutarama
%A Hussein, Eslam Ali Hassan
%A Wilson, Steven
%A Ma, Zexin
%A Zhao, Xinyan
%Y Bouamor, Houda
%Y Pino, Juan
%Y Bali, Kalika
%S Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023
%D 2023
%8 December
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Singapore
%F ganti-etal-2023-narrative
%X Using a narrative style is an effective way to communicate health information both on and off social media. Given the amount of misinformation being spread online and its potential negative effects, it is crucial to investigate the interplay between narrative communication style and misinformative health content on user engagement on social media platforms. To explore this in the context of Twitter, we start with previously annotated health misinformation tweets (n \approx15,000) and annotate a subset of the data (n=3,000) for the presence of narrative style. We then use these manually assigned labels to train text classifiers, experimenting with supervised fine-tuning and in-context learning for automatic narrative detection. We use our best model to label remaining portion of the dataset, then statistically analyze the relationship between narrative style, misinformation, and user-level features on engagement, finding that narrative use is connected to increased tweet engagement and can, in some cases, lead to increased engagement with misinformation. Finally, we analyze the general categories of language used in narratives and health misinformation in our dataset.
%R 10.18653/v1/2023.findings-emnlp.282
%U https://aclanthology.org/2023.findings-emnlp.282/
%U https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2023.findings-emnlp.282
%P 4266-4282
Markdown (Informal)
[Narrative Style and the Spread of Health Misinformation on Twitter](https://aclanthology.org/2023.findings-emnlp.282/) (Ganti et al., Findings 2023)
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