However, for other popular alternative domains, such as, rt.com and, URLs appear first on Twitter more often than Reddit and 4chan. The group found that URLs appear first in Reddit more often than on Twitter, and more frequently than they do on 4chan. There was no instance where mainstream news URLs tended to appear first on 4chan. On the other hand, URLs from other domains like bbc.com and tend to appear first more often on Twitter than Reddit. The connecting lines are colored the same as their source node and line thickness represents the frequency in which the URLs from each news domain appeared on each social platform.Flow of mainstream newsįor the mainstream news domains, the group found that URLs from and cnn.com tend to appear first more often on Reddit than Twitter and 4chan. This graph represents the news ecosystem for alternative news domains used in the study. Examination of the path of a URL reveals the domains whose URLs tend to appear first on each of the platforms. Using the unique URLs across all platforms and the time they first pop up, the team analyzed their appearance in one, two or three platforms, and the order in which the appearance occurred. made up 44 percent of the URLs on Twitter, while made up 19 percent, and made up 53 percent of the URLs, with making up 14 percent. After analyzing the occurrence of 99 URLs on the top 20 mainstream and alternative news sites, they found made up 55 percent of the URLs from six selected subreddits, and the made up 14 percent. They analyzed more than 400,000 tweets, 1.8 million posts and comments on Reddit, and 97,000 posts and replies on 4chan. Activity on the three platforms was measured between June 20, 2016, and Feb. The team gathered information from posts, threads and comments on Twitter, Reddit and 4chan that contained URLs from 45 mainstream and 54 alternative news websites.
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The content and talking points are refined until they finally break free and make it to larger, more mainstream communities.” "Many online hoaxes, false or misleading stories have been traced back to users on these platforms.
“Based on our findings, these smaller, fringe communities on Reddit and 4chan serve as an incubation chamber for a lot of information,” said Blackburn, assistant professor of computer science in the UAB College of Arts and Sciences. The results of the study were published this week in a paper at the ACM Internet Measurement Conference in London. The connecting lines are colored the same as their source node and line thickness represents the frequency in which the URL from each news domain appeared on each social platform.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.Īfter analyzing millions of posts containing mainstream and alternative news shared on Twitter, Reddit and 4chan, Jeremy Blackburn, Ph.D., and collaborators found that fringe communities within 4chan, an image-based discussion forum where users are anonymous, and Reddit, a social news aggregator where users vote up or down on posts, have a surprisingly large influence on Twitter. This graph represents the news ecosystem for mainstream news domains used in the study. Written by: Tiffany Westry Need more info? Contact us
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