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Cognitive cascades: How to model (and potentially counter) the spread of fake news

Nicholas Rabb ,

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: nicholas.rabb@tufts.edu

Affiliation Department of Computer Science, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts, United States of America

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6362-0448

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Lenore Cowen,

Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Computer Science, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Jan P. de Ruiter,

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Computer Science, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Psychology, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Matthias Scheutz

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Computer Science, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Cognitive cascades: How to model (and potentially counter) the spread of fake news

Nicholas Rabb,
Lenore Cowen,
Jan P. de Ruiter,
Matthias Scheutz

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Published: January 7, 2022
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0261811

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