Limited individual attention and online virality of low-quality information

By Xiaoyan Qiu, Diego F. M. Oliveira, Alireza Sahami Shirazi, Alessandro Flammini, Filippo Menczer. 2017

175 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Sociology and Political Science, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics

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In Sociology and Political Science

1. Aristides Gionis

In Statistical and Nonlinear Physics

1. Aristides Gionis
2. Venkata Rama Kiran Garimella
3. Gianmarco De Francisci Morales
4. Michael Mathioudakis
5. Carlos Castillo

Citations in the corpus

• The spread of low-credibility content by social bots (2017, unknown): “Furthermore, just like on Twitter, false claims on Facebook are as likely to go viral as reliable news [41].”
• Political Discourse on Social Media: Echo Chambers, Gatekeepers, and the Price of Bipartisanship (2018, background): “This finding could help us in revisiting existing models for the dynamics of opinion formation and polarization on social networks [11, 34] that take into account not only the opinion (content) spread over the social network, but also its impact of structure of the network itself.”