The agenda-setting power of fake news: A big data analysis of the online media landscape from 2014 to 2016

By Chris J. Vargo, Lei Guo, Michelle A. Amazeen. 2018

519 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Communication, Sociology and Political Science, AI Ethics, Fairness & Society, Social Sciences & Humanities

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2. Douglas Eck
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4. Daniel Duckworth
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Citations in the corpus

• Automatic Detection of Generated Text is Easiest when Humans are Fooled (2019, background): “It propogates quickly (Vosoughi et al., 2018), sets political agendas ∗Equal contribution, ‡Google, †University of Pennsylvania (Vargo et al., 2018), influences elections (Allcott and Gentzkow, 2017), and undermines user trust (Wang et al., 2012; Song et al., 2015).”
• The Debunking Handbook 2020 (2020, unknown): “Misinformation has been shown to set the political agenda 20 .”
• The Reception of Fake News: The Interpretations and Practices That Shape the Consumption of Perceived Misinformation (2019, background): “2017) or compare how either the fake news agenda paralleled a traditional fact-based media agenda (Guo and Vargo 2018) or that of fact-checking organizations (Vargo et al. 2018) during the U.”