How does fake news spread? Understanding pathways of disinformation spread through APIs

How Does Plague Spread

The spread of fake news by social bots

The massive spread of fake news has been identified as a major global risk and has been alleged to influence elections and threaten democracies. Communication, cognitive, social, and computer scientists are engaged in efforts to study the complex causes for the viral diffusion of digital misinformation and to develop solutions, while search and social media platforms are beginning to deploy cou...

How does epileptic activity spread?

Commentary Typical epileptic seizures are recorded as large rhythmic electrical activity in the neocortex, hippocampus, and other brain structures. This activity is usually thought to be some form of abnormally synchronized synaptic activity, with or without excessive synchronized local neuronal firing (1). Synaptic models have dominated ideas of the basic mechanisms of epileptic discharges for...

Does Activation Really Spread?

In this article we consider three versions of the spreading activation model for retrieval of information from memory. Predictions are derived for activation spreading down a linear network structure as a function of time. To test these predictions, two experiments were performed in which facilitation as a function of time was measured for target words in a linearly structured paragraph. A targ...

Construction and Validation of Critical Understanding of the Global Spread of English Scale (CUGSES)

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