The emergence of various social networks has generated vast volumes of data. Efficient
methods for capturing, distinguishing, and filtering real and fake news are becoming …

How do the Internet and social media affect political outcomes? We review empirical
evidence from the recent political economy literature, focusing primarily on work that …

Social media has been transforming political communication dynamics for over a decade.
Here using nearly a billion tweets, we analyse the change in Twitter's news media …

Policymakers, scholars, and practitioners have all called attention to the issue of
misinformation in the climate change debate. But what is climate change misinformation …

The dynamics and influence of fake news on Twitter during the 2016 US presidential
election remains to be clarified. Here, we use a dataset of 171 million tweets in the five …

We investigate the degree to which impact in science and technology is associated with
surprising breakthroughs, and how those breakthroughs arise. Identifying breakthroughs …

The viral spread of digital misinformation has become so severe that the World Economic
Forum considers it among the main threats to human society. This spread have been …

The wide availability of user-provided content in online social media facilitates the
aggregation of people around common interests, worldviews, and narratives. However, the …

Public opinion is shaped in significant part by online content, spread via social media and
curated algorithmically. The current online ecosystem has been designed predominantly to …

This study examines dynamic communication processes of political misinformation on social
media focusing on three components: the temporal pattern, content mutation, and sources of …