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How Facebook, Twitter and other data troves are revolutionizing social science
Scientists studied data from thousands of social-media users to analyse clusters perpetuating extremism. Credit: Minzhang Zheng and Neil Johnson
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Nature 582, 328-330 (2020)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-01747-1
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Clarification 29 June 2020: This feature has been updated to change Markus Strohmaier’s affiliation to his primary one.
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