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

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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Alexandre Bovet, Hernán A. Makse
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2019-01-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-07761-2