Words matter: How privacy concerns and conspiracy theories spread on twitter

Visentin, Marco; Tuan, Annamaria; Domenico, Giandomenico Di

doi:10.1002/mar.21542

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“…By projecting into the future, people can potentially diffuse their perceptions to other people, leading to a more social view. During a crisis, there are discussions, fake news, critics and conspiracy theories against actions taken by governments, which can lead to disproportional privacy concerns ( Visentin et al, 2021 ). In our study, we show that privacy is important to consider but will not negatively influence the perceived value of the app.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Furthermore, the characteristics of the text (namely, complexity, certainty and emotions) cue different Twitter users' behaviours. Visentin et al (2021) (Tweets on Italian tracing App) Xs: Prosociality, national identification, endorsement of liberty Moderators: Perceived efficacy of tracking technologies, perceived threat of future technological surveillance Y: Acceptance of surveillance technology Prosocial attitude will positively impact the acceptance of contact-tracing app. The endorsement of liberty negatively predicts attitude on contact-tracing apps Time is an important factor during the pandemic, and acceptance will differ depending on situations (the acceptance of tracing apps decreased after eight months but increased when infections and fatalities increased).…”

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confidence: 99%

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The psychological reassurance effect of mobile tracing apps in Covid-19 Era

Kurtaliqi

Zaman

Sohier

2022

Computers in Human Behavior

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As part of their public health policies, most countries have launched mobile tracing applications (apps) to reduce the spread of the COVID-19 virus and reassure their citizens. To the best of our knowledge, no study has explored the importance of ‘well-being’ and ‘trust in the future’ in the context of digital contact-tracing apps. This is an important gap, especially given the importance of citizens' acceptance of a mobile tracing app and its role in reassuring citizens. Therefore, we study the French government's tracing app—StopCovid—as experienced by a sample of 832 participants from France. The results establish strong links between perceived value and trust in government, well-being, and trust in the future, which are considered the key features of the reassurance effect in a pandemic context. In addition, a multigroup analysis (MGA) allows us to compare the effect of several moderators on the overall model, such as the users versus nonusers of tracking apps or infected versus noninfected with COVID-19. The study provides practical implications by highlighting how governments should deploy mobile tracing apps to contribute to public health and reassure their citizens during the pandemic.

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Section: Theoretical Frameworkmentioning

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The psychological reassurance effect of mobile tracing apps in Covid-19 Era

Kurtaliqi

Zaman

Sohier

2022

Computers in Human Behavior

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“…In this quote, we see that Jean‐François goes so far as to suggest that the vaccine obligation would be imposed for the profits it generates, thus approaching certain conspiracy theories (Visentin et al, 2021 ). While the references to such theories remained minor in our study, the suspicion vis‐à‐vis the business around vaccination, on the other hand, emerged more frequently.…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 88%

COVID‐19 vaccines and anti‐consumption: Understanding anti‐vaxxers hesitancy

Chaney¹,

Lee

2021

Psychology and Marketing

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Anti‐vaccination sentiment and vaccine hesitancy are on the rise. This is unfortunate given the world's coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) pandemic response plan relies on a global vaccination program the likes of which has never been attempted. Using an anti‐consumption lens, this study utilizes a qualitative approach and 53 interviews revolving around people's attitudes towards the COVID‐19 vaccination plan. The findings reveal that COVID‐19 vaccination hesitancy comes from two major factors: stable factors and contextual factors. Stable factors refer to factors that are consistently found in anti‐vaccination movements and include political and philosophical opposition. Contextual factors refer to factors that are highly dependent on the COVID‐19 situation and relates to a negative benefit to risk ratio informed by information overload and the influence of marketing phenomena such as branding and country of origin effects. Finally, theoretical and managerial contributions are offered for public policymakers and social marketers.

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“…Guntuku et al [10] used Twitter data to analyse mental health and symptoms. Additionally, Visentin et al [32] tried to identify the relationship of words, linguistics, styles, and emotions with privacy concerns and conspiracy theories in Twitter and how those elements contributed to the spread of such theories. To this end, they analysed tweets related to an Italian tracing app called "Immuni".…”

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Analysing Security and Privacy Threats in the Lockdown Periods of COVID-19 Pandemic: Twitter Dataset Case Study

Sharma¹,

Karunanayake²,

Masood³

et al. 2022

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The COVID-19 pandemic era will be remembered as a uniquely disruptive period that altered the lives of billions of citizens globally, resulting in new-normal for the way people live and work. With the coronavirus pandemic, businesses, governments, and educational institutes adapted to the "work or study from home" operating model that has not only transformed our online lives but has also exponentially increased the use of cyberspace. Concurrently, there has been a huge spike in the usage of social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter during the COVID-19 lockdown periods.These lockdown periods have resulted in a set of new cybercrimes, thereby allowing attackers to victimise users of social media platforms in times of fear, uncertainty, and doubt. The threats range from running phishing campaigns and malicious domains to extracting private information about victims for malicious purposes. To this end, it is vital to analyse the impact of drastic transformations that were taken during lockdown periods on the security and privacy of users.This research paper performs a large-scale study to investigate the impact of lockdown periods during COVID-19 pandemic on the security and privacy of social media users. We analyse 10.6 Million COVID-related tweets from 533 days of data crawling and investigate users' security and privacy behaviour in three different periods (i.e., before, during, and after lockdown). Our study shows that users unintentionally share more personal identifiable information when writing about the pandemic situation (e.g., sharing building name, nearby coronavirus testing location) in their tweets. The privacy risk reaches to 100% if a user posts three or more sensitive tweets about the pandemic. We investigate the number of suspicious domains shared in social media during different phases of the pandemic. Our analysis reveals an increase in the number of suspicious domains during the lockdown compared to other lockdown phases. We observe that IT, Search Engines, and Businesses are the top three categories that contain suspicious domains. Our analysis reveals that adversaries' strategies to instigate malicious activities change with the country's pandemic situation.

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Words matter: How privacy concerns and conspiracy theories spread on twitter

Cited by 31 publications

References 114 publications

The psychological reassurance effect of mobile tracing apps in Covid-19 Era

The psychological reassurance effect of mobile tracing apps in Covid-19 Era

COVID‐19 vaccines and anti‐consumption: Understanding anti‐vaxxers hesitancy

Analysing Security and Privacy Threats in the Lockdown Periods of COVID-19 Pandemic: Twitter Dataset Case Study

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