The web centipede: Understanding how web communities influence each other through the lens of mainstream and alternative news sources

Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference, IMC

Volumn Part F131937, Issue , 2017, Pages 405-418

  Zannettou, Savvas ^a   Caulfield, Tristan ^b   De Cristofaro, Emiliano ^b   Kourtellis, Nicolas ^c   Leontiadis, Ilias ^c   Sirivianos, Michael ^a   Stringhini, Gianluca ^b   Blackburn, Jeremy ^d  

^a CYPRUS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Cyprus)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c Telefonica Research   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

4chan; Fake news; Influence; Reddit; Social networks; Twitter

Indexed keywords

MEASUREMENTS;

4CHAN; FAKE NEWS; INFLUENCE; REDDIT; TWITTER;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 85038621544     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/3131365.3131390     Document Type: Conference Paper

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