A cura di RNik

Uno studio dell’Indiana University che tenta di introdurre delle metriche per misurare il propagarsi di fake news sui Social Media, in particolare su Twitter. Per farlo, è stata creata un’apposita piattaforma: Hoaxy.

The rise of digital misinformation is calling into question the integrity of our information ecosystem. Here we made two contributions to the ongoing debate on how to best combat this threat. First, we presented Hoaxy, an open platform that enables large-scale, systematic studies of how misinformation and fact-checking spread and compete on Twitter.
Second, using data from Hoaxy, we presented an in-depth analysis of the misinformation diffusion network in the run up to and wake of the 2016 US Presidential Election.

NOTA: tre dei sette autori dell’articolo sono italiani.

Immagine: Geralt