Friday, March 23, 2018

Faster and fiercer than Truth



In an article named “Fake news spreads ‘farther, faster, deeper’ than truth, study finds” by Ben Guarino from the Washington Post. He talks about Twitter and how a scientific study by Sinan Aral, a professor of information technology at MIT, has proven that false news moves much faster than the truth on the social media outlet and it’s not the twitter bots fault.  Ben says in his article “A single account was responsible for starting 4,700 false rumors.” It’s truly amazing the sheer amount of false news can be produced from a single post. Read more about the article and the study at: 

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