Ng, Lynnette Hui Xian http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2740-7818
Carley, Kathleen M.
Funding for this research was provided by:
Office of Naval Research (N000141812108)
United States Army Futures Command (W911NF-20-D-0002)
Air Force Research Laboratory (FA86502126244)
Article History
Received: 16 August 2023
Accepted: 7 December 2023
First Online: 19 December 2023
Declarations
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: There are several ethical points to consider in our work.In this study, we only extracted publicly available data using the Twitter API, and no attempt was made to retrieve protected tweets. Within this article, we do not process the usernames or unique personal identifiers of the social media accounts during our analysis. During our analysis, we use only the aggregate trends and do not investigate the profile and activity of individual users. We do not mention specific user names within our report because many of these accounts are still active online.The conclusions that we obtained through applying our methodology are based of the observations of the Twitter accounts and their posts. This represents but a slice of the discussion online and do not necessarily represent the entire population. Therefore, one must be cautious in using our insights to inform behavior or policy.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.