Fact-checking effect on viral hoaxes: A model of misinformation spread in social networks

WWW 2015 Companion - Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on World Wide Web

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 977-982

  Tambuscio, Marcella ^a   Ruffo, Giancarlo ^a   Flammini, Alessandro ^b   Menczer, Filippo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Epidemi ology; Fact checking; Information diffusion models; Misinformation spread; Viral hoaxes

Indexed keywords

PROBABILITY; SPREADERS; VIRUSES; WORLD WIDE WEB;

INFORMATION DIFFUSION MODELS; MISINFORMATION SPREAD; ON-LINE SOCIAL NETWORKS; REAL NETWORKS; SIMPLE MODELING; SPREADING RATE; THRESHOLD-VALUE; VIRAL HOAXES;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84968546956     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2740908.2742572     Document Type: Conference Paper

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