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Junk News & Information Sharing During the 2019 UK General Election
Nahema Marchal, Bence Kollanyi, Lisa-Maria Neudert +2
Today, an estimated 75% of the British public access information about politics and public life online, and 40% do so via social media. With this context in mind, we investigate in…
The Junk News Aggregator: Examining junk news posted on Facebook, starting with the 2018 US Midterm Elections
Dimitra Liotsiou, Bence Kollanyi, Philip N. Howard
In recent years, the phenomenon of online misinformation and junk news circulating on social media has come to constitute an important and widespread problem affecting public life…
Polarization, Partisanship and Junk News Consumption over Social Media in the US
Vidya Narayanan, Vlad Barash, John Kelly +3
What kinds of social media users read junk news? We examine the distribution of the most significant sources of junk news in the three months before President Donald Trump first St…
Social Media, News and Political Information during the US Election: Was Polarizing Content Concentrated in Swing States?
Philip N. Howard, Bence Kollanyi, Samantha Bradshaw +1
US voters shared large volumes of polarizing political news and information in the form of links to content from Russian, WikiLeaks and junk news sources. Was this low quality poli…
Bots, #StrongerIn, and #Brexit: Computational Propaganda during the UK-EU Referendum
Philip N. Howard, Bence Kollanyi
Bots are social media accounts that automate interaction with other users, and they are active on the StrongerIn-Brexit conversation happening over Twitter. These automated scripts…