Fact-checking strategies to limit urban legends spreading in a segregated society

Abstract We propose a framework to study the spreading of urban legends, i.e., false stories that become persistent in a local popular culture, where social groups are naturally segregated by virtue of many (both mutable and immutable) attributes. The goal of this work is identifying and testing new...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Marcella Tambuscio, Giancarlo Ruffo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2019-12-01
Series:Applied Network Science
Subjects:
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/s41109-019-0233-1