Researchers find fake news reaches users up to 20 times faster than factual content – and real users are more likely to spread it than bots“Falsehood flies,and the truth comes limping after it,” wrote Jonathan Swift in 1710. Now a group of scientists say they acquire found evidence Swift was accurate – at least when it comes to Twitter.
In the paper, and published in the journal Science,three MIT researchers record an analysis of a vast amount of Twitter data: more than 125000 stories, tweeted more than 4.5 million times in total, and all categorised as being true or fallacious by at least one of six independent fact-checking organisations.
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Source: guardian.co.uk