Measuring the monetization strategies of websites with application to pro- and anti-vaccine communities
Abstract Anti-vaccine content and other kinds of misinformation are hypothesized to be more heavily monetized than other kinds of online content. We test this hypothesis by applying several novel and scalable measures of website monetization strategies to more than 400,000 links shared by 261 anti-v...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Nature Portfolio
2023-09-01
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Series: | Scientific Reports |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-43061-6 |