Anatomy of news consumption on Facebook

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 114, Issue 12, 2017, Pages 3035-3039

  Schmidt, Ana Lucia ^a   Zollo, Fabiana ^a   Vicario, Michela Del ^a   Bessi, Alessandro ^b   Scala, Antonio ^a,c   Caldarelli, Guido ^a,c   Stanley, H Eugene ^d   Quattrociocchi, Walter ^a  

^a IMT SCHOOL FOR ADVANCED STUDIES LUCCA   (Italy)

^b SCUOLA UNIVERSITARIA SUPERIORE IUSS PAVIA   (Italy)

^c CNR   (Italy)

^d Boston University   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational social science; Facebook; Misinformation; News consumption

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANATOMY; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; HUMAN; INFORMATION; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOCIAL NETWORK; MISINFORMATION; SOCIOLOGY;

EID: 85016088761     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1617052114     Document Type: Article

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