Understanding the Personality of Contributors to Information Cascades in Social Media in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic

https://sentic.net/sentire2020nurbakova.pdfInternational audienceSocial media have become a major source of health information for lay people. It has the power to influence the public's adoption of health policies and to determine the response to the current COVID-19 pandemic. The aim of this paper is to enhance understanding of personality characteristics of users who spread information about controversial COVID-19 medical treatments on Twitter