Influence of fake news in Twitter during the 2016 US presidential election

Alexandre Bovet; Hernán A. Makse

doi:10.1038/s41467-018-07761-2

Nature Communications (Jan 2019)

Influence of fake news in Twitter during the 2016 US presidential election

Alexandre Bovet,
Hernán A. Makse

Affiliations

Alexandre Bovet: Levich Institute and Physics Department, City College of New York
Hernán A. Makse: Levich Institute and Physics Department, City College of New York

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-07761-2
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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The influence of 'fake news’, spread via social media, has been much discussed in the context of the 2016 US presidential election. Here, the authors use data on 30 million tweets to show how content classified as fake news diffused on Twitter before the election.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
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