Not All Lies Are Equal. A Study Into the Engineering of Political Misinformation in the 2016 US Presidential Election

We investigated whether and how political misinformation is engineered using a dataset of four months worth of tweets related to the 2016 presidential election in the United States. The data contained tweets that achieved a significant level of exposure and was manually labelled into misinformation...

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Main Authors: Axel Oehmichen, Kevin Hua, Julio Amador Diaz Lopez, Miguel Molina-Solana, Juan Gomez-Romero, Yi-ke Guo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IEEE 2019-01-01
Series:IEEE Access
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Online Access:https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8819953/