If you enjoyed this episode and want to learn more, here are some materials to check out:
Some of Fil’s Articles:
Menczer, F., & Hills, T. (2020, December 1). Information Overload Helps Fake News Spread, and Social Media Knows It. Scientific American. Access here.
Avram, M., Micallef, N., Patil, S., & Menczer, F. (2020). Exposure to social engagement metrics increases vulnerability to misinformation. Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review. Access here.
Sasahara, K., Chen, W., Peng, H., Ciampaglia, G. L., Flammini, A., & Menczer, F. (2020). Social influence and unfollowing accelerate the emergence of echo chambers. Journal of Computational Social Science. Access here.
Lazer, D. M. J., Baum, M. A., Benkler, Y., Berinsky, A. J., Greenhill, K. M., Menczer, F., … Metzger, M. J. (2018, March 9). The Science of Fake News, 359(6380). Access here.
Ciampaglia, G. L., Nematzadeh, A., Menczer, F., & Flammini, A. (2018). How algorithmic popularity bias hinders or promotes quality. Scientific Reports, 8. Access here.
Shao, C., Ciampaglia, G. L., Varol, O., Yang, K.-C., Flammini, A., & Menczer, F. (2018). The spread of low-credibility content by social bots. Nature Communications, 9. Access here.
Ferrara, E., Varol, O., Davis, C., Menczer, F., & Flammini, A. (2016, July). The Rise of Social Bots. Communications of the ACM, 59(7), 96–104. Access here.
Fil’s Books:
Menczer, F., Fortunato, S., & Davis, C. A. (2020). A first course in network science. Cambridge University press. Access here
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