Combating rumor spread on social media: The effectiveness of refutation and warning

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Volumn 2015-March, Issue , 2015, Pages 2406-2414

  Ozturk, Pinar ^a   Li, Huaye ^a   Sakamoto, Yasuaki ^a  

^a STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION DISSEMINATION;

DESIGN IDEAS; INACCURATE INFORMATION; INFORMATION EXCHANGES; RAPID COMMUNICATION; SOCIAL MEDIA;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84944254692     PISSN: 15301605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2015.288     Document Type: Conference Paper

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