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posted by Fnord666 on Saturday March 10 2018, @04:52PM   Printer-friendly
from the struth-mate dept.

A study shows that misinformation spreads faster and farther than correct information:

An analysis of news stories tweeted by three million people between 2006 and 2017 shows that fake news spreads significantly more than the truth on social media.

[...] Truthful tweets took six times as long as fake ones to spread across Twitter to 1,500 people – in large part because falsehoods in the sample were 70 per cent more likely to be retweeted than the truth, even after accounting for account age, activity level and their number of followers. The most viral fake news was political in nature.

The study was carried out by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Laboratory for Social Machines.

From The Inquirer.net : False stories travel way faster than the truth, says study
and New Scientist : Fake news travels six times faster than the truth on Twitter
and The Economist : On Twitter, falsehood spreads faster than truth.


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  • (Score: 5, Informative) by aristarchus on Saturday March 10 2018, @10:39PM (5 children)

    by aristarchus (2645) on Saturday March 10 2018, @10:39PM (#650665) Journal

    What happens is that true stories get submitted to SoylentNews by aristarchus, and they get stuck in the queue, shadow rejected, and finally rejected because of "reasons", all of which slows true stories down. "Anti-rape" pants or Swedish Islamophobia stories, on the other hand, . . .

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  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 11 2018, @02:39AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 11 2018, @02:39AM (#650741)

    Maybe if you got some anti-rape pants you wouldn't be so butt-hurt all the time.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 11 2018, @04:24AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 11 2018, @04:24AM (#650764)

      You seem to assume that Aristarchus is the rapee, and not the rapist. Aristarchus doesn't suffer from butt hurt, so much as ego hurt when he is denied a young boy's ass.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 11 2018, @06:14AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 11 2018, @06:14AM (#650790)

      Now you see, this is what is wrong with Millennials like Runaway, they have that there Attention Deficit Disorder, or Early Onset Alzheimer's, so they do not get the reference to a Fine Front Page Story we had right 'chere on the SN, not that long ago. https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=18/02/06/0213215 [soylentnews.org] Somehow this fake news story got on the front page even before the true story about it being a fake news story did! Amazing!

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 11 2018, @05:38PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 11 2018, @05:38PM (#650974)

    http://shop.safeshorts.eu/index.php?route=common/home [safeshorts.eu]

    Australians are now among women from tens of countries worldwide who are wearing anti-rape shorts and underwear to protect themselves against sexual assault. 'Safe Shorts' are made out of slash and tear resistant material, and feature an alarm system that activates when someone tries to tamper with them.

    https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/j5vyxb/australians-have-started-ordering-anti-rape-shorts [vice.com]

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 11 2018, @09:16PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 11 2018, @09:16PM (#651077)

      "Rattle your dags, Mate! What about the shorts for the sheep?"