The NULab conference is held every year to discuss the various works of research groups. David Lazer [center] attended this year’s conference to discuss his methods of research into Fake News. To verify his data pool, he cross-referenced Twitter accounts and voting records to find out which were real people and which were bots. He then compared their political biases and found that there were what he calls “neighborhoods of consumption,” where those who consumed Fake News were more likely to consume much more and share that with the rest of their virtual ‘neighbourhood’. In turn, these groups tend to consume much more Fake News as a while and tend to become less receptive to other neighborhoods’ ideas.
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