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During disasters and emergencies (earthquakes, pandemics, economic crises etc.), we also face a second challenge, pollution of information. The transmitted information may be false, potentially harmful and speculative. Today, the main source of information seems to be the social media, which behaves as a vector via sharing news. In this presentation, the concept of the transmission dynamics of vector-borne diseases is adapted to the transmission dynamics of vector-borne disinformation [1]. The dynamical behaviour of the model is analysed, the disinformation-free and disinformation endemic equilibria of the model are found and both their local and global stabilities are presented [2]. Finally, numerical simulations are carried out to support the analytical results of the dynamical transmission of disinformation. 

This is a joint work with Meltem Gölgeli from TOBB Economics and Technology University

[1] Muller, R., Reuss, F., Kendrovski, V., Montag, D., 2019. Vector-borne diseases, ¨ in: Biodiversity and Health in the Face of Climate Change. Springer International Publishing, pp. 67–90.

[2] Vijaykumar, S., Jin, Y., Pagliari, C., 2019. Outbreak communication challenges when misinformation spreads on social media. Revista Eletronica de Comunicacao, Informacao e Inovacao em Saude 13. doi:10.29397/reciis.v13i1.1623.   

Link to the seminar is:

https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3a0ae91f7b86a24e8fa1d818a6f74b22a1%40thread.tacv2/1633266050050?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%22066690f2-a8a6-4889-852e-124371dcbd6f%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%22a343f6fd-86f8-4abe-95cf-3c7f4ad5f0ca%22%7d