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 ...
Summary: The widespread use of social media is regarded by many as the emergence of a new highway for information and news sharing promising a new information-driven "social revolution". In this paper, we analyze how this idea transfers to the news reporting domain. To analyze the role of ...
This is definitely interesting; you can see how Twitter and Facebook have received very similar amounts of media attention over the last year, showing up in the news roughly the same amount of times. It also shows that for a while during mid 2009, Twitter had the upper hand. But that i...
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...
Furthermore, tweets are not sent according to a schedule: they occur as news is happening, and tend to be noisy while usually arriving at a high throughput rate. Some of the issues addressed include removing the noise, determining tweet clusters of interest bearing in mind that the methods ...
Tumblr has long housed some of the most self-expressive, marginalized communities of the internet. The site welcomed LGBTQ and sex-positive bloggers, artists and creators, self-proclaimed nerds and those in need of support. Now, with a strict and poorly executed ban on adult content, Tumblr i...
Information quality in social media is an increasingly important issue, but web-scale data hinders experts' ability to assess and correct much of the inaccurate content, or "fake news," present in these platforms. This paper develops a method for automating fake news detection on Twitter by lear...
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