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May 23, 2012

Why rumors spread so quickly in social networks

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Abstract

A few hubs with many connections share with many individuals with few connections.

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Doerr et al. (Wed,) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a089df27de338f10b10d924 https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1145/2184319.2184338

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