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标题：Text Analysis Methods for Misinformation–Related Research on Finnish Language Twitter
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作者：Jari Jussila ; Anu Helena Suominen ; Atte Partanen 等
期刊名称：Future Internet
电子版ISSN：1999-5903
出版年度：2021
卷号：13
期号：6
页码：157
DOI：10.3390/fi13060157
出版社：MDPI Publishing
摘要：The dissemination of disinformation and fabricated content on social media is growing. Yet little is known of what the functional Twitter data analysis methods are for languages (such as Finnish) that include word formation with endings and word stems together with derivation and compounding. Furthermore, there is a need to understand which themes linked with misinformation—and the concepts related to it—manifest in different countries and language areas in Twitter discourse. To address this issue, this study explores misinformation and its related concepts: disinformation, fake news, and propaganda in Finnish language tweets. We utilized (1) word cloud clustering, (2) topic modeling, and (3) word count analysis and clustering to detect and analyze misinformation-related concepts and themes connected to those concepts in Finnish language Twitter discussions. Our results are two-fold: (1) those concerning the functional data analysis methods and (2) those about the themes connected in discourse to the misinformation-related concepts. We noticed that each utilized method individually has critical limitations, especially all the automated analysis methods processing for the Finnish language, yet when combined they bring value to the analysis. Moreover, we discovered that politics, both internal and external, are prominent in the Twitter discussions in connection with misinformation and its related concepts of disinformation, fake news, and propaganda.
关键词：disinformation; misinformation; fake news; propaganda; Twitter; Finland; Finnish language; infodemic; social media disinformation ; misinformation ; fake news ; propaganda ; Twitter ; Finland ; Finnish language ; infodemic ; social media