mathematical modelling has been used to show that #misinformation spreads across the internet like a virus spreading through a population.


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Misinformation really does spread like a virus, suggest mathematical models drawn from epidemiology - Media@LSE
Sander van der Linden, University of Cambridge and David Robert Grimes, Trinity College Dublin explain how mathematical modelling has been used to ...