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Table 2 Comparing discord-promoting, political, risk-increasing characteristics among tweets with and without misinformation

From: Misinformation and the US Ebola communication crisis: analyzing the veracity and content of social media messages related to a fear-inducing infectious disease outbreak

Tweet Characteristic

Tweets Containing Misinformation

Tweets Without Misinformation

χ2

Value

P value

Degrees of freedom

Promotes discord

45%

26%

40.38

< 0.001

1

Political

36%

24%

15.87

< 0.001

1

Risk Increasing

76%

39%

127.58

< 0.001

1

  1. Table 2: Chi-squared testing found that content promoting social discord, political statements, and risk increasing messaging were all more common in tweets containing misinformation compared to tweets without misinformation. Percentages of tweets with or without misinformation that contain the tweet characteristic of interest are provided, as well as the χ2 value, p-value, and degrees of freedom.