MIT News March 8, 2018
Researchers at MIT found that falsehood diffuses significantly farther, faster, deeper, and more broadly than the truth, in all categories of information, and in many cases by an order of magnitude. Humans, not bots, are primarily responsible for spreading misleading information therefore behavioral interventions become even more important in our fight to stop the spread of false news. The study provides a variety of ways of quantifying this phenomenon… read more. Open Access TECHNICAL ARTICLE
Study: On Twitter, false news travels faster than true stories
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