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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 11 2018, @08:59AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 11 2018, @08:59AM (#650857)

    I've noticed that many of the people who do come out in favor of it turn out to be worshipers of it in a religious sense, Surrounding Their Support In Falsely Patriotic-Sounding Language Of, By, And For Murrica.

    I would say that right there is the worst narrative I've seen driven by your account. What simplistic and divisive drivel.