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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…
cs.SI2018★ 81 cited
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…