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How Twitter outrage hatches in tiny fringe groups on 4chan and Reddit

November 12, 2017November 22, 2017enc_ase_user_20_20

Communities within 4chan and Reddit are veritable hatcheries fro Twitter-borne fakery.

More at : https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2017/11/10/how-twitter-outrage-hatches-in-tiny-fringe-groups-on-4chan-and-reddit/

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Fake news and conspiracy: The influence of Reddit and 4chan on Twitter
“The Atlantic” article highlighting ENCASE’s research on fringe web communities and their outsized influence over the mainstream.

ENCASE is funded by the European Commission's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Framework program under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research and Innovation Staff Exchanges Action, Grant Agreement No. 691025.

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