FakeNewsLab: Experimental Study on Biases and Pitfalls Preventing Us from Distinguishing True from False News

Misinformation posting and spreading in social media is ignited by personal decisions on the truthfulness of news that may cause wide and deep cascades at a large scale in a fraction of minutes. When individuals are exposed to information, they usually take a few seconds to decide if the content (or...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Giancarlo Ruffo, Alfonso Semeraro
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2022-09-01
Series:Future Internet
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/1999-5903/14/10/283