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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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'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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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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Women Knew The Rumors About Harvey Weinstein". BuzzFeed. Retrieved 2018-01-27. "What is a whisper network? How women are taking down bad men in the #MeToo...
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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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Facebook (redirect from Facebook social network)
Facebook is an American social media and social networking service owned by the American technology conglomerate Meta. Created in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg...
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Viral phenomenon (redirect from Viral spread)
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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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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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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COVID-19 misinformation (category Wikipedia articles in need of updating from January 2021)
origin, prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of the disease has been spread through social media, text messaging, and mass media. False information has been...
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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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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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Parler (redirect from Parler (social network))
(pronounced "parlor") is an American alt-tech social networking service associated with conservatives. Launched in August 2018, Parler marketed itself as a...
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Misinformation (redirect from Misinformation on social media)
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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Instagram (redirect from Instagram social network)
Instagram is an American photo and short-form video sharing social networking service owned by Meta Platforms. It allows users to upload media that can...
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Springfield pet-eating hoax (redirect from Cat eating rumor)
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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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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Pizzagate conspiracy theory (category All Wikipedia articles written in American English)
unrelated private email server spread the conspiracy theory on social media outlets such as 4chan, 8chan, Reddit and Twitter. In response, a man from North...
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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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