Influence of fake news in Twitter during the 2016 US presidential election

Nature Communications

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2019, Pages

  Bovet, Alexandre ^a,b,c   Makse, Hernán A ^a  

^a CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^c University of Namur   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAUSAL MODELING; ELECTION;

EID: 85059494932     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-07761-2     Document Type: Article

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