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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.
(Score: 2) by ants_in_pants on Sunday March 11 2018, @03:12AM
The thing is that a lot of stuff that would previously be relegated to intelligentsia is making its way somewhat into the mainstream these days. So people are of course up in arms that the intelligentsia are so left-leaning, when in fact if anything they're less so than at any other point in the past 300 years.
-Love, ants_in_pants