A hierarchical network-oriented analysis of user participation in misinformation spread on WhatsApp
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Highlights：
• WhatsApp’s underlying co-sharing network favors misinformation spread at large.
• Users build well-structured communities, suggesting coordination to spread content.
• Users, groups, communities mostly engaged in misinformation have higher centrality.
• A few users, groups and communities generate most misinformation shared in a week.
• Users engaged in misinformation vary over time but remain mostly in the same groups.
摘要
•WhatsApp’s underlying co-sharing network favors misinformation spread at large.•Users build well-structured communities, suggesting coordination to spread content.•Users, groups, communities mostly engaged in misinformation have higher centrality.•A few users, groups and communities generate most misinformation shared in a week.•Users engaged in misinformation vary over time but remain mostly in the same groups.
论文关键词：Misinformation,WhatsApp,User behavior and network analysis
论文评审过程：Received 20 January 2021, Revised 17 August 2021, Accepted 5 September 2021, Available online 7 October 2021, Version of Record 7 October 2021.
论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ipm.2021.102757
