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

Table 11. Number of users, number of tweets mentioning a fake news link and the proportion of early spreaders for the tweets containing fake news links.

Early spreaders are users that have been among the first 1/30 percentile of users to share a fake news.

Candidates #Users #Tweets % early spreaders
François Fillon 1236 2481 0.06
Benoît Hamon 19 21 0
Marine Le Pen 784 1086 0.05
Emmanuel Macron 61 65 0
Jean-Luc Mélenchon 11 143 0.03
Other communities 123 170 0.03
Sea 614 922 0.03