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Twitter may be overlooking misinformation "superspreaders" - political pundits, low-credibility media outlets, and influencers who use more toxic language than the typical misinformation spreader

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Identifying and characterizing superspreaders of low-credibility content on Twitter

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Twitter may be overlooking misinformation "superspreaders" - political pundits, low-credibility media outlets, and influencers who use more toxic language than the typical misinformation spreader.

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Twitter may be overlooking misinformation "superspreaders" - political pundits, low-credibility media outlets, and influencers who use more toxic language than the typical misinformation spreader

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Article URL:  https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0302201

Article Title: Identifying and characterizing superspreaders of low-credibility content on Twitter

Author Countries: USA, UK

Funding: This work was supported by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, Craig Newmark Philanthropies, and the National Science Foundation (grant ACI-1548562). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.


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