articleScience AdvancesApr 3, 2020GOLD OA

Evaluating the fake news problem at the scale of the information ecosystem

JAJennifer AllenBHBaird HowlandMMMarkus MöbiusDRDavid RothschildDJDuncan J. Watts

IIT@MIT · Harmonic Drive (Germany) · +3 more institutions

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Abstract

Mainstream news, mainly on television, vastly outweighs fake news, and news itself is a small fraction of U.S. media consumption.

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  • Scale (ratio)
  • Ecosystem
  • Computer science
  • Fake news
  • Data science
  • Environmental resource management
  • Environmental science
  • Ecology
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