Table 3.
Measuring the cosine distance between sentence vectors of statement 0 and the tweets.
| Tweet | Position | Misinformation | Cosine distance | ||
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Yes | No |
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| “With the growing concern of the COVID-19 virus we understand the importance of boosting the immune system. CBDa is a natural way to do that. The Healing Leaf wants to help make CBD more available and lessen costs for those interested. Please come in or call and place your orders!” <MASKED-URL> | Most similar | ✓ |
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0.069577 | |
| “CBD may reduce cytokine storm and inflammation in COVID-19\n” <MASKED-URL> | Second most similar | ✓ |
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0.077852 | |
| “They snuck a shipping ban on vape products into the last covid relief bill. All vape products. CBD, nicotine, delta 8, doesn’t matter.” | Second most distant |
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✓ | 0.296933 | |
| “Final point: When COVID hit, we LOWERED our prices and never put them back up. Funny how reddit and Review haters never use their real names and 9/10 when you find out their real name - they run for the hills or perhaps just back to Mam’s house and their keyboard...” | Most distant |
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✓ | 0.297551 | |
aCBD: cannabidiol.