The spread of true and false news online

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    English
  • DOI (url)
    10.1126/science.aap9559
  • Publication Date
    2018/03/09
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    Science
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  • Soroush Vosoughi Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the Media Lab, E14-526, 75 Amherst Street, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA. ORCID
  • Deb Roy Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the Media Lab, E14-526, 75 Amherst Street, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA.
  • Sinan Aral MIT, E62-364, 100 Main Street, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA. ORCID
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Vosoughi, Soroush, et al. “The Spread of True and False News Online”. Science, vol. 359, no. 6380, 2018, pp. 1146-51, https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aap9559.
Vosoughi, S., Roy, D., & Aral, S. (2018). The spread of true and false news online. Science, 359(6380), 1146-1151. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aap9559
Vosoughi, Soroush, Deb Roy, and Sinan Aral. “The Spread of True and False News Online”. Science 359, no. 6380 (2018): 1146-51. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aap9559.
Vosoughi S, Roy D, Aral S. The spread of true and false news online. Science. 2018;359(6380):1146-51.
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