Abstract
Fake news sharing in 2016 was rare but significantly more common among older Americans.
Keywords
Fake newsInternet privacySocial mediaPsychologyAdvertisingEnvironmental healthMedicineComputer scienceWorld Wide WebBusiness
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Publication Info
- Year
- 2019
- Type
- article
- Volume
- 5
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- eaau4586-eaau4586
- Citations
- 1527
- Access
- Closed
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Andrew M. Guess,
Jonathan Nagler,
Joshua A. Tucker
(2019).
Less than you think: Prevalence and predictors of fake news dissemination on Facebook.
Science Advances
, 5
(1)
, eaau4586-eaau4586.
https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aau4586
Identifiers
- DOI
- 10.1126/sciadv.aau4586
- PMID
- 30662946
- PMCID
- PMC6326755