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. 2021 Apr 14;7(4):e26527. doi: 10.2196/26527

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©Dax Gerts, Courtney D Shelley, Nidhi Parikh, Travis Pitts, Chrysm Watson Ross, Geoffrey Fairchild, Nidia Yadria Vaquera Chavez, Ashlynn R Daughton. Originally published in JMIR Public Health and Surveillance (http://publichealth.jmir.org), 14.04.2021.

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Data set volumes and overlap by theory. The node size indicates the total number of tweets discussing each conspiracy theory, while the edge thickness corresponds to the number of tweets discussing any pair of conspiracy theories simultaneously. 5G: conspiracy theories related to 5G technology; Gates: conspiracy theories related to Bill Gates or the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; Lab: conspiracy theories related to SARS-CoV-2 being laboratory-released or human-made; Vax: conspiracy theories related to vaccines.