The dynamics and influence of fake news on Twitter during the 2016 US presidential election remains to be clarified. Here, we use a dataset of 171 million tweets in the five months preceding the election day to identify 30 million tweets, from 2.2 million users, which contain a link to news outlets. Based on a classification of news outlets curated by www.opensources. co, we find that 25% of these tweets spread either fake or extremely biased news. We characterize the networks of information flow to find the most influential spreaders of fake and traditional news and use causal modeling to uncover how fake news influenced the presidential election. We find that, while top influencers spreading traditional center and left leaning news largel...
Part 4: Social Media and Web 3.0 for SmartnessInternational audienceElections are the most critical ...
With candidates using social media sites like Facebook and Twitter as part of their campaign strateg...
Permeating the Internet and reaching millions of users, fake news became a pervasive phenomenon on t...
The dynamics and influence of fake news on Twitter during the 2016 US presidential election remains ...
How did misinformation spread during the 2016 presidential election and has anything changed since? ...
It is a widely accepted fact that state-sponsored Twitter accounts operated during the 2016 US presi...
It is a widely accepted fact that state-sponsored Twitter accounts operated during the 2016 US presi...
It is a widely accepted fact that state-sponsored Twitter accounts operated during the 2016 US presi...
The flow of misinformation and disinformation around the 2016 U.S. presidential election put the pro...
This paper introduces and presents a first analysis of a uniquely curated dataset of misinformation,...
Social media has been transforming political communication dynamics for over a decade. Here using ne...
This study determined the antecedents of diffusion scope (total audience), speed (number of adopters...
U.S. presidential election campaigns witnessed an unprecedented viral false news -A type of misinfor...
Massive amounts of fake news and conspiratorial content have spread over social media before and aft...
We characterize the effect of fake news on online browsing during the 2016 US presidential election....
Part 4: Social Media and Web 3.0 for SmartnessInternational audienceElections are the most critical ...
With candidates using social media sites like Facebook and Twitter as part of their campaign strateg...
Permeating the Internet and reaching millions of users, fake news became a pervasive phenomenon on t...
The dynamics and influence of fake news on Twitter during the 2016 US presidential election remains ...
How did misinformation spread during the 2016 presidential election and has anything changed since? ...
It is a widely accepted fact that state-sponsored Twitter accounts operated during the 2016 US presi...
It is a widely accepted fact that state-sponsored Twitter accounts operated during the 2016 US presi...
It is a widely accepted fact that state-sponsored Twitter accounts operated during the 2016 US presi...
The flow of misinformation and disinformation around the 2016 U.S. presidential election put the pro...
This paper introduces and presents a first analysis of a uniquely curated dataset of misinformation,...
Social media has been transforming political communication dynamics for over a decade. Here using ne...
This study determined the antecedents of diffusion scope (total audience), speed (number of adopters...
U.S. presidential election campaigns witnessed an unprecedented viral false news -A type of misinfor...
Massive amounts of fake news and conspiratorial content have spread over social media before and aft...
We characterize the effect of fake news on online browsing during the 2016 US presidential election....
Part 4: Social Media and Web 3.0 for SmartnessInternational audienceElections are the most critical ...
With candidates using social media sites like Facebook and Twitter as part of their campaign strateg...
Permeating the Internet and reaching millions of users, fake news became a pervasive phenomenon on t...