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Detection methodsSpread & networks
Information Credibility on TwitterThis paper proposes supervised learning classifiers to automatically assess the credibility of news discussed on Twitter. Using human-labeled topics from trending discussions, the authors extract message-level, user-level, topic-level, and propagation-level features to build classifiers that distinguish newsworthy from conversational…
Spread & networksBots & coordinated campaigns
Detecting and Tracking the Spread of Astroturf Memes in Microblog StreamsPolitical campaigns increasingly use social media to amplify deceptive memes that mimic organic grassroots behavior—termed "astroturfing." This paper introduces the Truthy system, which analyzes meme diffusion networks on Twitter to detect orchestrated campaigns through network topology and sentiment analysis, achieving ~90%…
Spread & networksDatasets & evaluation
The structure and function of complex networksThis comprehensive review surveys the properties and mathematical models of complex networks across diverse domains: social networks, the Internet, biological networks, and collaboration networks. Newman covers observed structural properties (degree distributions, clustering, small-world effects), foundational models (random graphs,…
Spread & networksPsychology & interventions
A Theory of Fads, Fashion, Custom, and Cultural Change as Informational CascadesFoundational theoretical framework explaining how fads, fashions, and beliefs spread through sequential information cascades: when individuals use others' actions to infer information while ignoring their own private signals, widespread adoption of incorrect beliefs and practices can occur.