A cure worse than the disease? The controversy on Twitter around a fake COVID-19 treatment from France
Published in The Greek Review of Social Research, 26 July 2024
Summary
This article analyses the actors and discourses involved in the controversy surrounding Didier Raoult’s hydroxychloroquine-based COVID-19 treatment proposal. Combining network and lexicometric analysis across 1.2 million tweets, it connects peaks in online attention to major media events and identifies political, media, conspiratorial, and anti-establishment clusters within the debate.
Recommended citation: Smyrnaios, N., Tsimpoukis, P., & Papaevangelou, C. (2024). A cure worse than the disease? The controversy on Twitter around a fake COVID-19 treatment from France. The Greek Review of Social Research, 163, 11–36. https://doi.org/10.12681/grsr.38490.