Table 2.
Topic distribution of original rumor rebuttal tweets and their retweets and comments.
| Topic | Original tweets, n (%)a | Retweets, n (%)a | Comments, n (%)a |
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Users (n=51) | Tweets (n=55) | Users (n=16,707) | Retweets (n=18,118) | Users (n=4863) | Comments (n=6064) |
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| Virus | 3 (6) | 3 (5) | 1204 (7.2) | 1207 (6.7) | 266 (5.5) | 355 (5.8) |
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| Contagion | 3 (6) | 3 (5) | 230 (1.4) | 233 (1.3) | 233 (4.8) | 343 (5.7) |
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| Prevention | 6 (12) | 8 (15) | 2235 (13.4) | 2471 (13.6) | 759 (15.6) | 896 (14.8) |
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| Patients | 4 (8) | 4 (7) | 1132 (6.8) | 1137 (6.3) | 399 (8.2) | 414 (6.8) |
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| Treatment | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) |
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| Sequelae | 1 (2) | 1 (2) | 242 (1.4) | 242 (1.3) | 29 (0.6) | 30 (0.5) |
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| Epidemic situation | 25 (49) | 25 (46) | 2693 (16.1) | 2835 (15.6) | 1980 (40.7) | 2603 (42.9) |
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| Domestic government countermeasures | 5 (10) | 5 (9) | 364 (2.2) | 372 (2.1) | 374 (7.7) | 462 (7.6) |
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| Other domestic countermeasures | 1 (2) | 1 (2) | 25 (0.1) | 25 (0.1) | 30 (0.6) | 35 (0.6) |
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| Foreign countermeasures | 4 (8) | 4 (7) | 2813 (16.8) | 2823 (15.6) | 526 (10.8) | 575 (9.5) |
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| Others | 1 (2) | 1 (2) | 6773 (40.5) | 6773 (37.4) | 309 (6.4) | 351 (5.8) |
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aPercentages may add up to greater than 100% because one user may post multiple original tweets among which each tweet belongs to a specific topic.