MeVer NetworkX: Network Analysis and Visualization for Tracing Disinformation

The proliferation of online news, especially during the “infodemic” that emerged along with COVID-19 pandemic, has rapidly increased risk and, more importantly, volume misinformation. Online Social Networks (OSNs), such as Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, serve fertile ground for disseminating misinformation, making need tools analyzing social web gaining insights into communities drive misinformation vital. We introduce MeVer NetworkX analysis visualization tool, which helps users delve media conversations, gain about how information propagates, provides intuition formed via interactions. contributions our tool lie in easy navigation through a multitude features provide helpful account behaviors propagation, support Telegram graphs, modularity to integrate platforms. also highlight suspicious accounts graph user should investigate further. collected four Twitter datasets related disinformation present tool’s functionalities evaluate its effectiveness.