Political science: Fake news on Twitter during the 2016 U.S. presidential election

Science

Volumn 363, Issue 6425, 2019, Pages 374-378

  Grinberg, Nir ^a,b   Joseph, Kenneth ^c   Friedland, Lisa ^a   Swire Thompson, Briony ^a,b   Lazer, David ^a,b  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ELECTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; SOCIAL MEDIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 85060549676     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.aau2706     Document Type: Article

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