• and Maki-Thompson models. Particularly, rumor spread can be viewed as a stochastic process in social networks. By contrast, the microscopic models are...
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    evidence. In the social sciences, a rumor involves a form of a statement whose truthfulness or honesty is not quickly or ever confirmed. In addition,...
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  • the rapidity and extensiveness of technological networks, the spread of social conformity, political rumor, fads, fashions, gossip, and hype threatens to...
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    complex network Random networks Rumor spread in social network Scale-free networks Sequential dynamical system Service network Small-world networks Structural...
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  • of her research include wireless sensor networks, influence maximization and rumor spreading in social networks, and the analysis of geospatial data. Wu...
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  • January to August 2023, Rumor Scanner identified 1,082 pieces of misinformation spread on social media and local media. Rumor Scanner has found evidence...
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  • media makes it easier for rumors to spread, and more difficult for rumor control and fake news to be managed. By 2018, "rumor cascades" were under investigation...
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  • Complex contagion (category Social networks)
    Twitter. The spread of disease Spread of information Emotional contagion Mark Granovetter Graph theory Rumor spread in social network Social contagion Centola...
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  • Claudia Ochoa Félix (category Social media influencers)
    (15 January 1987 – 14 September 2019) was a social media personality. In 2014, a rumor spread on social media that she was a high-ranking leader of the...
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  • Information cascade (category Social influence)
    features of a network affect cascade virality. Additionally, these models are widely exploited in the problem of Rumor spread in social network to investigate...
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  • culminates in his proud announcement that he and Ross founded a club in high school that initiated a rumor that she was a hermaphrodite, which was spread throughout...
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    developed in sociology. Amongst many other applications, social network analysis has been used to understand the diffusion of innovations, news and rumors. Similarly...
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     'friends' circle') is a social networking feature of the Tencent communications app WeChat. Moments was launched on 19 April 2012 in WeChat 4.0. Moments uses...
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  • social networking sites in the early 2000s, online social networking platforms have expanded exponentially, with the biggest names in social media in...
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  • Facebook is a social media and social networking service owned by the American technology conglomerate Meta. Created in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg with four...
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  • Street's Elmo. Online social networks have also become a platform for spread of rumors, one such study has analyzed rumors in retrospect. One of the...
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    particularly social media to influence elections, sow distrust in institutions, spread rumors, spread disinformation, typically using bots to create and spread contact...
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  • Hamas baby beheading hoax (category 2023 in Israel)
    from both the Democratic and Republican parties also spread the uncorroborated reports on social media. The Israeli Prime Minister's Office's X account...
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  • State-sponsored Internet propaganda (category Wikipedia articles in need of updating from July 2024)
    particularly social media to influence elections, sow distrust in institutions, spread rumors, spread disinformation, typically using bots to create and spread contact...
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    beliefs spread through networks. Epistemic network analysis is one example of a computational method for evaluating connections in data shared in a social media...
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    Haitian community and unfounded local rumors of Haitians stealing waterfowl for food. After the claims spread, dozens of bomb threats targeted Springfield...
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  • Spamouflage (category Propaganda in China)
    and disinformation operation that has been using a network of social media accounts to make posts in favor of the government of the People's Republic of...
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  • disavowed as misinformation circulated on social media. Rumors spread to other Canadian provinces and schools. In the United States, popular media coverage...
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  • drive traffic to another website. While it is ethical to use social networking websites to spread a message to people who are genuinely interested, many people...
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    Technology Committee that in 2017, 53,000 false rumors had been spread primarily through social media in 60 days. A wide range of South African media sources...
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  • Infodemic (category Social influence)
    Look up infodemic in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. An infodemic is a rapid and far-reaching spread of both accurate and inaccurate information about...
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  • MacRumors is an American website that reports and aggregates Apple Inc.- and Mac-related news, rumors, and information. The website is updated on a daily...
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  • in the form of news articles. While the stated purpose is for users to prank their friends, many of the resulting false stories have spread on social...
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  • spread of false information on social media. Rumor Detector by Agence Science-Presse AFP Fact Check from Agence France-Presse: originally launched in...
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    Urban legend (redirect from Urban rumor)
    as in the story a serial killer deliberately hiding in the back seat of a car. Another such example since the 1970s has been the recurring rumor that...
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