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- Authors
- Starbird, K.
- Affiliations
- University of Washington (US)
- Corresponding author
- Starbird, Kate
- ORCID
- Starbird, Kate
- Venue
- Nature
- Published
- 2019-07-24
- Volume
- 571
- Issue
- 7766
- Pages
- 449-449
- ISSN
- 0028-0836 (ISSN-L)
- 1476-4687
- OpenAlex
- W2963910833
- Cited by
- 203
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 18 · 2025: 33 · 2024: 28 · 2023: 26 · 2022: 38 · 2021: 33 · 2020: 23 · 2019: 4
- FWCI
- 49.34
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Nature (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Misinformation and Its Impacts
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Statistical and Nonlinear Physics › Complex Network Analysis Techniques
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Spam and Phishing Detection
- Keywords
- disinformation, online manipulation, bots, trolls, misinformation spread, online disinformation
- MeSH terms
- Administrative Personnel, Algorithms, Democracy, Goals, Humans, Deception, Politics, Research Personnel, Social Media
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