The spread of low-credibility content by social bots

Nature Communications

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2018, Pages

  Shao, Chengcheng ^a,b   Ciampaglia, Giovanni Luca ^c   Varol, Onur ^a   Yang, Kai Cheng ^a   Flammini, Alessandro ^a,c   Menczer, Filippo ^a,c  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF DEFENSE TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; PROCEDURES; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOCIAL NETWORK; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

COMMUNICATION; DATA COLLECTION; HUMANS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOCIAL NETWORKING;

EID: 85056802427     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-06930-7     Document Type: Article

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