Surges of Political “Fake News”: A case study on Twitter

Authors

  • Raquel Recuero Universidade Federal de Pelotas Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
  • Anatoliy Gruzd Social Media Lab Ryerson University

Keywords:

fake news, social networks, social network analysis, surges

Abstract

In this paper we propose an analysis of the so-called political “fake news” on Twitter, based on a case study. We examined fake news that circulated during the trial and imprisonment of the Brazilian ex-president Lula da Silva. Through social network and qualitative analyses, we found that this fake news circulated mostly among highly partisan clusters and that their spread is influenced by a certain type of user.

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Published

2019-06-15

Issue

No. 41 (2019)

Section

Artigos | Articles

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