Hoaxy: A Platform for Tracking Online Misinformation

Understand

Massive amounts of misinformation have been observed to spread in uncontrolled fashion across social media.

• Examples include rumors, hoaxes, fake news, and conspiracy theories.
• At the same time, several journalistic organizations devote significant efforts to high-quality fact checking of online claims.
• The resulting information cascades contain instances of both accurate and inaccurate information, unfold over multiple time scales, and often reach audiences of considerable size.