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Is trust to web pages related to nation-level factors? Do trust levels change in time and how? What categories (topics) of pages tend to be evaluated as not trustworthy, and what categories of pages tend to be trustworthy? What could be the reasons of such evaluations? The goal of this paper is to answer these questions using large scale data of trustworthiness of web pages, two sets of websites, Wikipedia and an international survey.
Research supported by the grant ”Reconcile: Robust Online Credibility Evaluation of Web Content” from Switzerland through the Swiss Contribution to the enlarged European Union.
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Nielek, R., Wawer, A., Jankowski-Lorek, M., Wierzbicki, A. (2013). Temporal, Cultural and Thematic Aspects of Web Credibility. In: Jatowt, A., et al. Social Informatics. SocInfo 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8238. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03260-3_36
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