The Rules of Contagion

(Greg DeLong) #1
2019; Narayanan V. et al., ‘Russian Involvement and Junk News
during Brexit’, Oxford Comprop Data Memo, 2017.


  1. Pareene A., ‘How We Fooled Donald Trump Into Retweeting
    Benito Mussolini’, Gawker, 28 February 2016.

  2. Hessdec A., ‘On Twitter, a Battle Among Political Bots’, New
    York Times, 14 December 2016.

  3. Shao C. et al., ‘The spread of low-credibility content by social
    bots’, Nature Communications, 2018.

  4. Musgrave S., ‘ABC, AP and others ran with false information
    on shooter’s ties to extremist groups’, Politico, 16 February 2018.

  5. O’Sullivan D., ‘American media keeps falling for Russian
    trolls’, CNN, 21 June 2018.

  6. Phillips W., ‘How journalists should not cover an online
    conspiracy theory’, The Guardian, 6 August 2018.

  7. Background on media manipulation from: Phillips W., ‘The
    Oxygen of Amplification’, Data & Society Report, 2018.

  8. Weiss M., ‘Revealed: The Secret KGB Manual for Recruiting
    Spies’, The Daily Beast, 27 December 2017.

  9. DiResta R., ‘There are bots. Look around’, Ribbon Farm, 23
    May 2017.

  10. ‘Over 9000 Penises’, Know Your Meme, 2008.

  11. Zannettou S. et al., ‘On the Origins of Memes by Means of
    Fringe Web Communities’, arXiv, 2018.

  12. Feinberg A., ‘This is the Daily Stormer’s playbook’, Huffington
    Post, 13 December 2017.

  13. Collins K. and Roose K., ‘Tracing a Meme From the Internet’s
    Fringe to a Republican Slogan’, New York Times, 4 November



  14. Background on real-life spillover: O’Sullivan D., ‘Russian trolls
    created Facebook events seen by more than 300,000 users’,

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