Understanding Automation and the Coronavirus Infodemic: What Data Is Missing? - Center for Democracy and Technology

That’s why today, CDT joined 75 organizations and researchers in publishing an open letter to social media companies and other content hosts, urging them to enable future research and analysis about the “infodemic” side of COVID-19 by preserving information about what their systems are automatically blocking and taking down. Without understanding what kind of content is staying up, coming down, or never making it online in the first place, it will be hard to assess the efficacy of efforts to share vital public health information while combating the spread of coronavirus scams and pandemic profiteering.