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. 2018 Sep 19;13(9):e0201879. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0201879

Table 10. Entropy and average number of communities [in brackets] reached on average by fake news, debunks and tweets with or without URL mention over the period.

We also present the result when considering all communities as a single one except for the 6 main political online communities identified during the French presidential election. Tweets without communities (43.44%) were considered as a single community for the processing of entropy. For comparison with the debunks and fakes news dataset, identified by the URLs they spread, we also provide the global statistics for the subset of tweets that mention URLs.

entropy [# communities] All communities 6 majors communities
Fake news retweet (n = 4,888) 1.92 [3.78] 1.53 [2.88]
Debunks retweet (n = 1,275) 2.94 [7.67] 2.23 [4.69]
All retweets with url (n = 7,318,878) 3.75 [13.45] 2.28 [4.85]
All retweets (n = 43,101,891) 3.72 [13.17] 2.54 [5.82]