Follow the Money: How the Online Advertising Ecosystem Funds COVID-19 Junk News and Disinformation
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3 August 2020
Messaging platforms such as Telegram are key channels for the dissemination of misinformation and junk news. So far there are very few large-scale studies of how news and political content circulates on these platforms. We use a large open access dataset to analyze which English-language news sources are prevalent on public Telegram channels, the scale of their audience and how information spreads on the platform. Our key results are:
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Aleksi Knuutila, Aliaksandr Herasimenka, Jonathan Bright, Rasmus Nielsen & Philip N. Howard. “Junk News Distribution on Telegram: The Visibility of English-language News Sources on Public Telegram Channels.” Data Memo 2020.5. Oxford, UK: Project on Computational Propaganda. comprop.oii.ox.ac.uk
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