Identifying and characterizing superspreaders of low-credibility content on Twitter.

The world's digital information ecosystem continues to struggle with the spread of misinformation. Prior work has suggested that users who consistently disseminate a disproportionate amount of low-credibility content-so-called superspreaders-are at the center of this problem. We quantitatively...

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Main Authors: Matthew R DeVerna, Rachith Aiyappa, Diogo Pacheco, John Bryden, Filippo Menczer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2024-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0302201&type=printable