Table 2.
Thematic categories in twitter posts.
| Figures of Blame | Twitter Posts |
|---|---|
| National Governments | 920 (66%) |
| Political Leaders | 234 (25%) |
| Censorship of Information | 209 (23%) |
| Border Control | 54 (6%) |
| Pandemic Fund Reduction | 31 (3%) |
| Healthcare Costs | 21 (2%) |
| Conspiracy Theories | |
| Others (i.e., Spies, New World Order, Hoax) | 175(12%) |
| Laboratory Experiment | 85 (49%) |
| Bioweapon | |
| 5G | |
| Media | |
| Fake News | 46 (26%) |
| Social Groups | 36 (21%) |
| Xenophobia | 8 (5%) |
| Purposeful Contamination | 103 (7%) |
| Meat Consumption | 21 (20%) |
| Exotic Animal Trade | 87 (6%) |
| Health Authorities | |
| CDC | 68 (78%) |
| WHO | 19 (87%) |
| 61 (4%) | |
| 31 (51%) | |
| 49 (3%) | |
| 30 (61%) | |
| 19 (39%) | |