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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: 2) by c0lo on Sunday March 11 2018, @01:40AM (3 children)

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Sunday March 11 2018, @01:40AM (#650726) Journal

    Drop the jew hating parts, for rather obvious reasons, and then explain how Bernie Sanders (who is not a member of the Democratic Party because he is an avowed Socialist) wouldn't either embrace every remaining plank or criticize it for being RIGHT of our current political times because past Democrats already went far farther toward the Sunny Uplands of History than Hitler felt safe in proposing in his time. Quote a plank and explain how Bernie (or any other brand name Progressive) rejects it as being too far Left.

    Have you really done the "dropping the jew hating" part? Id so, post the list here, otherwise you start with an unsubstantiated claim.

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  • (Score: 1, Troll) by jmorris on Sunday March 11 2018, @02:05AM (2 children)

    by jmorris (4844) on Sunday March 11 2018, @02:05AM (#650735)

    If you weren't a retard you could figure it out for yourself. It wasn't subtle. "Hence no Jew can be a countryman." is many things, subtle is not numbered among them. But points 4, 5 and 6 are generally accepted as primarily directed at the Jews. 23 and 24 aimed broader than just Jews but certainly was motivated by the same impulse to remove the encroaching Soviet / Jewish influence.

    But since I already pulled the list, I'll specifically issue the challenge to argue against the assertion that Progs are fully on board or already generally to the Left of part one of point 7, and points 9-18, 20-25. Points 1-3 are just butthurt over the Treaty of Versailles and unimportant outside their point in time and 19 is a similar historical oddity. While anti-military feelings dominate the Left, they might not want the specific solution in 22, hard to figure out what the Left wants on that issue currently. They loved the military when Obama was droning people but seem to have flipped again with Trump's election.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 11 2018, @04:59AM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 11 2018, @04:59AM (#650774)

      Jmorris is unhinging! Must be trumps huuuge win in the polls. The real polls, no the fake ones!

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 11 2018, @10:22AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 11 2018, @10:22AM (#650876)

        He's just pining for the Reich fiords! And all shagged out. Wonderful plummage!