Abstract
The rising popularity of online social networks has made information generating and sharing much easier than ever before, due to the ability to publish content to large, targeted audiences. Such networks enable their participants to simultaneously become both consumers and producers of content, shifting the role of information broker from a few dedicated entities to a diverse and distributed group of individuals. While this fundamental change allows information propagating at an unprecedented rate, it also enables unreliable or unverified information spreading among people, such as rumors.
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Xu, W., Wu, W. (2020). Information Source Detection in Social Networks. In: Optimal Social Influence. SpringerBriefs in Optimization. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-37775-5_3
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