The reach of commercially motivated junk news on Facebook

• Peter Burger ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Peter Burger, Soeradj Kanhai, Suzan Verberne

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Journalism and New Media, Leiden University Centre of Linguistics (LUCL), Leiden University, Leiden, the Netherlands

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• Soeradj Kanhai ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Peter Burger, Soeradj Kanhai, Suzan Verberne

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS), Leiden University, Leiden, the Netherlands

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• Alexander Pleijter,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Journalism and New Media, Leiden University Centre of Linguistics (LUCL), Leiden University, Leiden, the Netherlands

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• Suzan Verberne

  Contributed equally to this work with: Peter Burger, Soeradj Kanhai, Suzan Verberne

  Roles Methodology, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: s.verberne@liacs.leidenuniv.nl

  Affiliation Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS), Leiden University, Leiden, the Netherlands

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9609-9505

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