Table 1.

Variables used in explaining account suspensions (n = 1256)

Variable name	Definition	Descriptives
chinese_textimage	The % of tweets that the account posted include a Chinese text-image. It calculates from the number of tweets including the Chinese text-image divided by the number of all tweets from individual account	Min: 0 Max: 1 Mean: 0.515 Median: 1
chinese_text	The % of tweets that the account posted include a Chinese character in the text	Min: 0 Max: 1 Mean: 0.448 Median: 0
N_friend	The number of accounts that the account follows	Min: 0 Max: 51,734 Mean: 839 Median: 89
N_follower	The number of followers that the account has	Min: 0 Max: 278,296 Mean: 1192.7 Median: 21
N_RT	The % of tweets that the account posted are from the retweet of others’ posts	Min: 0 Max: 1 Mean: 0.68 Median: 1
N_post	The number of #USAVirus posts that the account made	Min: 1 Max: 43 Mean: 2.84 Median: 1