{"id":9913,"date":"2020-05-07T13:04:08","date_gmt":"2020-05-07T12:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/?p=9913"},"modified":"2020-05-07T13:56:26","modified_gmt":"2020-05-07T12:56:26","slug":"celebrating-success-dr-wasim-ahmed-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/2020\/05\/07\/celebrating-success-dr-wasim-ahmed-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating Success: Dr Wasim Ahmed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to\u00a0Dr Wasim Ahmed and his co-authors who recently had their paper titled: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jmir.org\/2020\/5\/e19458\/\">COVID-19 and the 5G Conspiracy Theory: Social Network Analysis of Twitter Data<\/a>\u201d published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research.<\/p>\n<p>A\u00a0number of conspiracy theories related to COVID-19 have been spread on social media platforms. One of these has linked the spread of COVID-19 to the launch of the mobile communication network known as \u20185G\u2019 which is the successor to the current 4G network. It is a dangerous conspiracy theory which has led to the burning of 5G towers around the United Kingdom, including damage reported at a hospital.<\/p>\n<p>In the paper, Dr Wasim Ahmed and his co-authors analyse the conspiracy theory on Twitter using social network analysis, identify influential sources spreading the theory and discuss methods to combat it.<\/p>\n<p>The work was also recently featured in an article published by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.e-ir.info\/2020\/04\/23\/battling-fake-news-and-insecurity-during-covid-19\/\">E-International News<\/a>, and is featured by the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lse.ac.uk\/school-of-public-policy\/COVID-19\"> London School of Economics<\/a>. Further outlets have also shown an interest in promoting this work.<\/p>\n<p>The full article is available <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jmir.org\/2020\/5\/e19458\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to\u00a0Dr Wasim Ahmed and his co-authors who recently had their paper titled: \u201cCOVID-19 and the 5G Conspiracy Theory: Social Network Analysis of Twitter Data\u201d&#8230; <br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/2020\/05\/07\/celebrating-success-dr-wasim-ahmed-3\/\" rel=\"bookmark\"><strong>Read more<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3560,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3560"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9913"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9927,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9913\/revisions\/9927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}