2024
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0301364
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The geography of corporate fake news

Alper Darendeli,
Aixin Sun,
Wee Peng Tay

Abstract: Although a rich academic literature examines the use of fake news by foreign actors for political manipulation, there is limited research on potential foreign intervention in capital markets. To address this gap, we construct a comprehensive database of (negative) fake news regarding U.S. firms by scraping prominent fact-checking sites. We identify the accounts that spread the news on Twitter (now X) and use machine-learning techniques to infer the geographic locations of these fake news spreaders. Our analysi… Show more

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