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Disinformation

Disinformation is a form of deceptive communication that belongs to the category of false or misleading information, distinguished by its intentional fabrication and deliberate dissemination to manipulate public perception, political outcomes, or policy decisions within digital and political communication environments.

5.9K

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455.5K

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12.7K

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3.2K

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Publications

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The spread of true and false news online

Soroush Vosoughi, Deb Roy, Sinan Aral · Science · 2018 · 8.4K citations

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Social Media and Fake News in the 2016 Election

Hunt Allcott, Matthew Gentzkow · The Journal of Economic Perspectives · 2017 · 6.6K citations · Full text

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The science of fake news

David Lazer, Matthew Baum, Yochai Roberts Benkler et al. · Science · 2018 · 3.8K citations · Full text

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Fake News Detection on Social Media

Kai Shu, Amy Sliva, Suhang Wang et al. · ACM SIGKDD Explorations Newsletter · 2017 · 3.1K citations

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Misinformation and Its Correction

Stephan Lewandowsky, Ullrich K. H. Ecker, Colleen M. Seifert et al. · Gothic.net · 2012 · 2.8K citations

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Authors

12.7K

  1. DG
    David G. Rand

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States

    75 publications · 13.9K citations

    42

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  2. GP
    Gordon Pennycook

    University of Regina, Canada

    69 publications · 15.3K citations

    39

    h-index

  3. SL
    Stephan Lewandowsky

    The University of Western Australia, Australia

    44 publications · 12.2K citations

    33

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  4. UK
    Ullrich K. H. Ecker

    The University of Western Australia, Australia

    46 publications · 11.4K citations

    33

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  5. SV
    Sander van der Linden

    University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

    42 publications · 8.3K citations

    31

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Institutions

3.2K

  1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    Cambridge, United States

    52 h-index

    243 publications

    51.4K citations

  2. University of Oxford

    Oxford, United Kingdom

    42 h-index

    144 publications

    10.2K citations

  3. New York University

    New York, United States

    39 h-index

    156 publications

    11.7K citations

  4. University of Washington

    Seattle, United States

    39 h-index

    164 publications

    14.7K citations

  5. The University of Western Australia

    Perth, Australia

    38 h-index

    157 publications

    32K citations

  6. University of Southern California

    Los Angeles, United States

    37 h-index

    154 publications

    16.4K citations

  7. Stanford University

    Stanford, United States

    37 h-index

    128 publications

    12.9K citations

  8. Indiana University Bloomington

    Bloomington, United States

    36 h-index

    130 publications

    24.9K citations

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Venues

  1. arXiv (Cornell University)

    Repository · 190 publications · 9.2K citations

    51

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  2. PLoS ONE

    70 publications · 8.3K citations

    45

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  3. New Media & Society

    62 publications · 6.3K citations

    39

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  4. SSRN Electronic Journal

    Repository · 114 publications · 5.8K citations

    38

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  5. Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review

    75 publications · 4.9K citations

    38

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