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SUBMITTER: Castioni P
PROVIDER: S-EPMC9597167 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Castioni Piergiorgio P Andrighetto Giulia G Gallotti Riccardo R Polizzi Eugenia E De Domenico Manlio M
Royal Society open science 20221026 10
Online platforms play a relevant role in the creation and diffusion of false or misleading news. Concerningly, the COVID-19 pandemic is shaping a communication network which reflects the emergence of collective attention towards a topic that rapidly gained universal interest. Here, we characterize the dynamics of this network on Twitter, analysing how unreliable content distributes among its users. We find that a minority of accounts is responsible for the majority of the misinformation circulat ...[more]