The limited reach of fake news on Twitter during 2019 European elections

The advent of social media changed the way we consume content, favoring a disintermediated access to, and production of information. This scenario has been matter of critical discussion about its impact on society, magnified in the case of the Arab Springs or heavily criticized during Brexit and the...

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Vydáno v:PloS one Ročník 15; číslo 6; s. e0234689
Hlavní autoři: Cinelli, Matteo, Cresci, Stefano, Galeazzi, Alessandro, Quattrociocchi, Walter, Tesconi, Maurizio
Médium: Journal Article
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: San Francisco Public Library of Science 18.06.2020
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Témata:
Accounts
Borders
Classroom communication
Computer and Information Sciences
Computer mediated communication
Datasets
Digital media
Disinformation
Earth Sciences
Election results
Elections
EU membership
False information
Influence
Information
Information flow
Information sharing
Information society
Interpersonal communication
Legislatures
News
News media
Online social networks
People and Places
Political advertising
Political aspects
Politics
Presidential elections
Quantitative analysis
Research and Analysis Methods
Social media
Social networks
Social Sciences
Italy
United States > US
ISSN:1932-6203, 1932-6203
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Shrnutí:The advent of social media changed the way we consume content, favoring a disintermediated access to, and production of information. This scenario has been matter of critical discussion about its impact on society, magnified in the case of the Arab Springs or heavily criticized during Brexit and the 2016 U.S. elections. In this work we explore information consumption on Twitter during the 2019 European Parliament electoral campaign by analyzing the interaction patterns of official news outlets, disinformation outlets, politicians, people from the showbiz and many others. We extensively explore interactions among different classes of accounts in the months preceding the elections, held between 23rd and 26th of May, 2019. We collected almost 400,000 tweets posted by 863 accounts having different roles in the public society. Through a thorough quantitative analysis we investigate the information flow among them, also exploiting geolocalized information. Accounts show the tendency to confine their interaction within the same class and the debate rarely crosses national borders. Moreover, we do not find evidence of an organized network of accounts aimed at spreading disinformation. Instead, disinformation outlets are largely ignored by the other actors and hence play a peripheral role in online political discussions.
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Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
ISSN:1932-6203
1932-6203
DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0234689