The fake news spreading plague: Was it preventable?

WebSci 2017 - Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Web Science Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 235-239

  Mustafaraj, Eni ^a   Metaxas, Panagiotis Takis ^a  

^a WELLESLEY COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Facebook; Fake news; Google; Misinformation spreading; Twitter

Indexed keywords

FACEBOOK; FAKE NEWS; GOOGLE; MISINFORMATION SPREADING; TWITTER;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 85026756312     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/3091478.3091523     Document Type: Conference Paper

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