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title: Covid-19 Infodemic Scores

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# Covid-19 Infodemic Scores

#### Exploitbility
- Propogation channels: 8, it covers YouTube, FB, Twitter, etc. Many popular websites are used for propogation.
- Difficulty to distinguish: 5. Some are hard to tell, but there are some misinfo that should be easy to tell.
- Targeted people: 7, Multiple communities.
- Actors: 8, Many ( Right Wing, Conspiracy Group, Geopolitical Group)
- Relevance: 9, Highest level relevance.
- Campaign Focus: 7, Multimodal focus.

#### Impact
- Existing Impact: 5, Medium (Health/Mental/Political)
- Potential Impact: 3, Low (The potential harm in the future is expected to be low)
- Harm Level: 5, Medium (I guess)
- Affected affairs: 5, Politial (Immigration, Race, Origins of Covid), Health, Mental (Causing Panic, Distrust, etc.)
- Exposure: 8, Many people have been affected.

#### Temporal
- Exploit Chance: High. Such misinfo has been used for different purposes. And people's reaction somehow demonstrated this.
- Remediation Difficulty: Temporary Fix (or Official Fix?). For conspiracies, it is harder, but for right-wing group and geopolitical group's agendas, it seems easier? Not sure.
- Report Confidence: Reasonable.

#### Environmental
None.