2024
Existência Numérica - Emergencies

Curated by Barbara Castro, Doris Kosminsky and Luiz Ludwig @luizludwig, the exhibition has as one of its highlights the work 'Fake News Apostles', by Albert-László Barabási, a Hungarian physicist, expert in data analysis, who applied his experience in big data and network science to reveal hidden forces that drove the spread of fake news during the COVID vaccine rollout.

BarabásiLab created a generative 3D animation, based on data from the Network Science Institute's Fake News Observatory, in Boston, United States, where scientists mapped more than 200 thousand users of the platform X, identifying 17,000 individuals who, actively or unintentionally, helped spread fake news about the vaccine. The work also highlighted 12 people, called 'apostles', who were responsible for around 70% of these messages, showing that, although in small numbers, they were capable of infecting minds and, indirectly, responsible for increasing the number of deaths in the pandemic.

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– Photos by Diana Sandes
– Photos by Diana Sandes
– Photos by Diana Sandes
– Photos by Diana Sandes
– Photos by Diana Sandes
– Photos by Diana Sandes

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