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Disinformation’s spread: bots, trolls and all of us

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Misconceptions about disinformation leave us vulnerable to manipulation online, says Kate Starbird.

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  • Kate Starbird, 2019. "Disinformation’s spread: bots, trolls and all of us," Nature, Nature, vol. 571(7766), pages 449-449, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:571:y:2019:i:7766:d:10.1038_d41586-019-02235-x
    DOI: 10.1038/d41586-019-02235-x
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    1. Martin-Gutierrez, Samuel & Losada, Juan C. & Benito, Rosa M., 2023. "Multipolar social systems: Measuring polarization beyond dichotomous contexts," Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, Elsevier, vol. 169(C).
    2. Sara Melotte & Mayank Kejriwal, 2021. "A Geo-Tagged COVID-19 Twitter Dataset for 10 North American Metropolitan Areas over a 255-Day Period," Data, MDPI, vol. 6(6), pages 1-9, June.
    3. Michael Hameleers, 2022. "Populist Disinformation: Are Citizens With Populist Attitudes Affected Most by Radical Right-Wing Disinformation?," Media and Communication, Cogitatio Press, vol. 10(4), pages 129-140.
    4. Alfredo Guzmán Rincón & Sandra Barragán Moreno & Belén Rodríguez-Canovas & Ruby Lorena Carrillo Barbosa & David Ricardo Africano Franco, 2023. "Social networks, disinformation and diplomacy: a dynamic model for a current problem," Palgrave Communications, Palgrave Macmillan, vol. 10(1), pages 1-14, December.
    5. Yao Lu & Zheng Ji & Xiaoqi Zhang & Yanqiao Zheng & Han Liang, 2020. "Re-Thinking the Role of Government Information Intervention in the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Agent-Based Modeling Analysis," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 18(1), pages 1-17, December.
    6. Suzanne Elayan & Martin Sykora, 2024. "Digital intermediaries in pandemic times: social media and the role of bots in communicating emotions and stress about Coronavirus," Journal of Computational Social Science, Springer, vol. 7(3), pages 2481-2504, December.
    7. Lipić, Tomislav & Štajduhar, Andrija & Medvidović, Luka & Wild, Dorian & Korošak, Dean & Podobnik, Boris, 2022. "Stringency without efficiency is not adequate to combat pandemics," Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, Elsevier, vol. 160(C).

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