TY  - CHAP
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13734-6_18
M1  - 8851
AV  - none
Y1  - 2014///
SP  - 259
ID  - eprints2963
KW  - misinformation; collective narratives; crowd dynamics; information spreading
TI  - Social Determinants of Content Selection in the Age of (Mis)Information
T3  - Lecture Notes in Computer Science
EP  - 268
N2  - Despite the enthusiastic rhetoric about the so called collective intelligence, conspiracy theories ? e.g. global warming induced by chemtrails or the link between vaccines and autism ? find on the Web a natural medium for their dissemination. Users preferentially consume information according to their system of beliefs and the strife within users of opposite worldviews (e.g., scientific and conspiracist) may result in heated debates. In this work we provide a genuine example of information consumption on a set of 1.2 million of Facebook Italian users. We show by means of a thorough quantitative analysis that information supporting different worldviews ? i.e. scientific and conspiracist news ? are consumed in a comparable way. Moreover, we measure the effect of 4709 evidently false information (satirical version of conspiracist stories) and 4502 debunking memes (information aiming at contrasting unsubstantiated rumors) on polarized users of conspiracy claims.
A1  - Bessi, Alessandro
A1  - Caldarelli, Guido
A1  - Del Vicario, Michela
A1  - Scala, Antonio
A1  - Quattrociocchi, Walter
SN  - 978-3-319-13733-9
T2  - Social Informatics
PB  - Springer
ER  -