Investigating Italian disinformation spreading on Twitter in the context of 2019 European elections.

We investigate the presence (and the influence) of disinformation spreading on online social networks in Italy, in the 5-month period preceding the 2019 European Parliament elections. To this aim we collected a large-scale dataset of tweets associated to thousands of news articles published on Itali...

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Main Authors: Francesco Pierri, Alessandro Artoni, Stefano Ceri
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2020-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0227821