Prebunking earthquake predictions on social media DOI Creative Commons
Laure Fallou, Rémy Bossu,

Jean-Marc Cheny

et al.

Frontiers in Communication, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 9

Published: June 19, 2024

Earthquake misinformation has not only a significant impact on crisis management, but also trust in scientific information and institutions. As global center for seismic information, the Euro-Mediterranean Seismological Center (EMSC) developed strategy to combat false related earthquakes, particularly Twitter (now known as X). This includes automation of prebunking tweets prevent spread and, unreliable claims earthquake predictions. In field predictions earthquakes have particular characteristic: their appearance follows specific dynamic attention paid them is predictable, which makes countermeasures (prebunking debunking) both possible relevant. Therefore, objectives EMSC’s automatic are warn people advance, those who may be vulnerable misinformation, while filling void with verified, scientifically-based meantime. paper seeks examine usefulness such tool. It does so by analyzing users’ engagement these tweets. addition, it focuses two case studies, sequence Turkey following M7.8 February 6, 2023 M6.8 Morocco September 8, 2023. The results show automatically generated an even greater interaction manual tweets, highlighting importance holistic approach. Recommendations include optimizing visibility extending efforts beyond social media, exploring alternative platforms. advocates comprehensive strategy, combining automated tools leveraging diverse communication channels take into account cultural differences.

Language: Английский

The propagation of seismic waves, misinformation, and disinformation from the 2024-10-05 M 4.5 Iran earthquake DOI Creative Commons
Benjamin Fernando, Ross Maguire,

Bernardo B. Fernandez

et al.

Seismica, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 4(1)

Published: Feb. 4, 2025

The 2024-10-05 Iran M 4.5 earthquake took place at a time of heightened tensions in the Middle East. We perform discrimination and moment tensor analysis identify shallow-dipping, reverse fault source commensurate with compressional setting Iranian interior. Nonetheless, event's aftermath saw widespread dissemination misinformation, potentially active disinformation, concluding that it was fact test an nuclear weapon. `evidence' for many these claims based on inaccurate interpretation seismic data. In this paper, we analyse how geophysical `fake news' propagated through social media (mainly Twitter/X) following event, eventually gaining traction mainstream, earned media. This event is illustrative warning data can be misinterpreted and/or manipulated public discourse.

Language: Английский

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Prebunking earthquake predictions on social media DOI Creative Commons
Laure Fallou, Rémy Bossu,

Jean-Marc Cheny

et al.

Frontiers in Communication, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 9

Published: June 19, 2024

Earthquake misinformation has not only a significant impact on crisis management, but also trust in scientific information and institutions. As global center for seismic information, the Euro-Mediterranean Seismological Center (EMSC) developed strategy to combat false related earthquakes, particularly Twitter (now known as X). This includes automation of prebunking tweets prevent spread and, unreliable claims earthquake predictions. In field predictions earthquakes have particular characteristic: their appearance follows specific dynamic attention paid them is predictable, which makes countermeasures (prebunking debunking) both possible relevant. Therefore, objectives EMSC’s automatic are warn people advance, those who may be vulnerable misinformation, while filling void with verified, scientifically-based meantime. paper seeks examine usefulness such tool. It does so by analyzing users’ engagement these tweets. addition, it focuses two case studies, sequence Turkey following M7.8 February 6, 2023 M6.8 Morocco September 8, 2023. The results show automatically generated an even greater interaction manual tweets, highlighting importance holistic approach. Recommendations include optimizing visibility extending efforts beyond social media, exploring alternative platforms. advocates comprehensive strategy, combining automated tools leveraging diverse communication channels take into account cultural differences.

Language: Английский

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