Echo chambers in the age of misinformation
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i i i i Echo chambers in the age of misinformation Michela Del Vicario ∗, Alessandro Bessi †, Fabiana Zollo ∗ , Fabio Petroni ‡, Antonio Scala ∗ §, Guido Caldarelli ∗ § , H. Eugene Stanley ¶, Walter Quattrociocchi ∗ ‖ ∗Laboratory of Computational Social Science, Networks Dept IMT Alti Studi Lucca, 55100 Lucca, Italy,†IUSS Institute for Advanced Study, 27100 Pavia, Italy,‡Sapienza University, Rome, Italy,§ ISC-CNR Uos ”Sapienza”, 00185 Roma, Italy,¶Boston University, Boston, MA 02115 USA, and ‖corresponding author [email protected]
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- CoRR
دوره abs/1509.00189 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2015