Twitter announced on Wednesday an initiative to help researchers analyze content posted by its users related to the coronavirus epidemic. The American social network thus provides access to a specific flow of data in real time, in order to facilitate research around this disease.
"It is a database which contains tens of millions of tweets every day and which thus offers a unique point of view on world public opinion in constant evolution, in this unprecedented crisis", explains Twitter on his blog.
Observe the phenomena of disinformation
The usefulness of such a constantly updated database, accessible free of charge to researchers, is manifold in the fight against the epidemic. It can in particular help to study the spread of the disease, but also observe the many phenomena of disinformation, the management of the crisis by public authorities, or even serve to feed artificial intelligence algorithms.
This initiative was welcomed by Vera Jourova, the Vice-President of the European Commission responsible in particular for questions of disinformation. "Our cooperation and our regular exchanges with platforms to fight against disinformation are bearing fruit," she said, recalling having insisted with them "so that researchers have better access to non-personal data and to tools ”which allow them to be analyzed.
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