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On the Origins of Memes by Means of Fringe Web Communities
Zannettou et al. · ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC) · 2018
- Authors
- Zannettou et al.
- Year
- 2018
- Venue
- ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC)
- Topic
- misinformation
Summary
From 160M images across Twitter, Reddit, 4chan /pol/, and Gab, the paper traces how memes propagate and finds /pol/ and r/The_Donald are among the most influential communities for spreading racist and political memes to the mainstream web.
Sources
- 01dblp recordAcademic2018
- 02Author PDF (BU seclab)Academic2018