Echo chambers, filter bubbles, and polarisation: A literature review

This literature review examines social scientific evidence regarding the existence, causes,
and effects of online echo chambers in the context of concerns about digital platforms …

Fake news, rumor, information pollution in social media and web: A contemporary survey of state-of-the-arts, challenges and opportunities

P Meel, DK Vishwakarma - Expert Systems with Applications, 2020 - Elsevier
Internet and social media have become a widespread, large scale and easy to use platform
for real-time information dissemination. It has become an open stage for discussion …

The pushshift reddit dataset

J Baumgartner, S Zannettou, B Keegan… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - aaai.org
Social media data has become crucial to the advancement of scientific understanding.
However, even though it has become ubiquitous, just collecting large-scale social media …

Disinformation as collaborative work: Surfacing the participatory nature of strategic information operations

K Starbird, A Arif, T Wilson - Proceedings of the ACM on Human …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
In this paper, we argue that strategic information operations (eg disinformation, political
propaganda, and other forms of online manipulation) are a critical concern for CSCW …

Far-right conspiracy groups on fringe platforms: A longitudinal analysis of radicalization dynamics on Telegram

H Schulze, J Hohner, S Greipl… - … Journal of Research …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Societal crises, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, produce societal instability and create a
fertile ground for radicalization. Extremists exploit such crises by distributing disinformation …

[HTML][HTML] The spread of low-credibility content by social bots

C Shao, GL Ciampaglia, O Varol, KC Yang… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
The massive spread of digital misinformation has been identified as a major threat to
democracies. Communication, cognitive, social, and computer scientists are studying the …

False information on web and social media: A survey

S Kumar, N Shah - arXiv preprint arXiv:1804.08559, 2018 - arxiv.org
False information can be created and spread easily through the web and social media
platforms, resulting in widespread real-world impact. Characterizing how false information …

The Brexit botnet and user-generated hyperpartisan news

MT Bastos, D Mercea - Social science computer review, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
In this article, we uncover a network of Twitterbots comprising 13,493 accounts that tweeted
the United Kingdom European Union membership referendum, only to disappear from …

The web of false information: Rumors, fake news, hoaxes, clickbait, and various other shenanigans

S Zannettou, M Sirivianos, J Blackburn… - Journal of Data and …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
A new era of Information Warfare has arrived. Various actors, including state-sponsored
ones, are weaponizing information on Online Social Networks to run false-information …

Combating disinformation in a social media age

K Shu, A Bhattacharjee, F Alatawi… - … : Data Mining and …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The creation, dissemination, and consumption of disinformation and fabricated content on
social media is a growing concern, especially with the ease of access to such sources, and …