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cs.CL2026
BERTopic-Virality Prioritisation: A Scalable Framework for Thematic and Comparative Analysis of COVID-19 and Monkeypox Misinformation on Twitter
Mkululi Sikosana, Sean Maudsley-Barton, Oluwaseun Ajao
Health misinformation circulating during pandemics can gain traction rapidly, creating harmful narratives that compete with public health guidance. Most topic-modelling pipelines t…
cs.CL2025
Linguistic Patterns in Pandemic-Related Content: A Comparative Analysis of COVID-19, Constraint, and Monkeypox Datasets
Mkululi Sikosana, Sean Maudsley-Barton, Oluwaseun Ajao
This study conducts a computational linguistic analysis of pandemic-related online discourse to examine how language distinguishes health misinformation from factual communication.…