Harvard CRCS – 10/17
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We live in an increasingly interconnected world, one in which people turn to the Web and online social networks for information when making important medical, financial and political decisions. As more and more people use sites, such as Google, Bing, Facebook and Twitter, on a daily basis as a primary source for locating information, interested groups and individuals try to trick them in promoting misinformation by using “spamming” techniques.
