Study finds fringe communities on Reddit and 4chan have high influence on flow of alternative news to Twitter

Researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, Cyprus University of Technology, University College London and Telefonica Research have conducted the first large-scale measurement of how mainstream and alternative news flows through multiple social media platforms.

Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2017-11-fringe-reddit-4chan-high-alternative.html#jCp
Read more at: http://www.uab.edu/news/research/item/8840-study-finds-alternative-news-communities-on-reddit-and-4chan-have-high-influence-on-flow-of-alternative-news-to-twitter