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To Share or Not to Share: Investigating Drivers for Sharing Online News Using Automated Machine Learning and Probabilistic Modeling

Open Access
|Mar 2025

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/cait-2025-0003 | Journal eISSN: 1314-4081 | Journal ISSN: 1311-9702
Language: English
Page range: 36 - 54
Submitted on: Dec 5, 2024
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Accepted on: Feb 21, 2025
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Published on: Mar 21, 2025
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 4 issues per year

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