You raised a highly relevant topic to discuss. As the war in Ukraine is about to escalate in the near future it is now imperative to find out how fake news influences ordinary people and social media professionals in using online media. Please let me argue in this regard that ResearchGate is a top-quality social network media tool to measure the influence of researchers:
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2) Wiechetek, Ł., Pastuszak, Z. Academic social networks metrics: an effective indicator for university performance?.Scientometrics 127, 1381–1401 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-021-04258-6, Open access:
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4) Qianwen Ariel Xu, Victor Chang, Chrisina Jayne,
A systematic review of social media-based sentiment analysis: Emerging trends and challenges Decision Analytics Journal, Volume 3, 2022, Open access: Article A systematic review of social media-based sentiment analysis...
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FollowersAnalysis (https://www.followersanalysis.com/) an AI-based tool is particularly for Twitter. You can use it to get a report of any public Twitter account.
You get a list of detailed metrics that can help you identify influencers and analyze them.