There is growing concern amongst policy makers, managers and academic researchers
over the role that social media plays in spreading misinformation, widely described as 'Fake …

There have been growing concerns regarding the potential impact of social media on
democracy and public debate. While some theorists have claimed that ICTs and social …

Social media may limit the exposure to diverse perspectives and favor the formation of
groups of like-minded users framing and reinforcing a shared narrative, that is, echo …

Social media has been transforming political communication dynamics for over a decade.
Here using nearly a billion tweets, we analyse the change in Twitter's news media …

The dynamics and influence of fake news on Twitter during the 2016 US presidential
election remains to be clarified. Here, we use a dataset of 171 million tweets in the five …

Echo chambers and opinion polarization recently quantified in several sociopolitical
contexts and across different social media raise concerns on their potential impact on the …

This paper examines the 2016 US presidential election campaign to identify problems with,
causes of and solutions to the contemporary fake news phenomenon. To achieve this, we …

Conspiracy theories proliferate online. We provide an overview of information consumption
patterns related to conspiracy content on four mainstream social media platforms (Facebook …

Social media is a transformative digital technology, collapsing the “six degrees of
separation” which have previously characterized many social networks, and breaking down …

This study finds that the online “fake news” game, Bad News, can confer psychological
resistance against common online misinformation strategies across different cultures. The …