Duncan J. Watts

Affiliation: University of Pennsylvania, School of Engineering and Applied Science

Research focus: Social networks, information diffusion, viral dynamics, collective behavior, and misinformation at scale.

Key papers

• The Science of Fake News (2018) — Foundational multidisciplinary review establishing the scientific framework for studying fake news
• Hosseinmardi et al. (2022). Examining the consumption of radical content on YouTube.
• Allen et al. (2020). Evaluating the fake news problem at the scale of the information ecosystem.