Sinan Aral and two others completed a two year study recently, focusing on the speed at which Fake News and real news is disseminated. They found that it takes “about six times longer” for true events to get to 1500 people than fake news. Fake news, moreover, is able to get to twenty thousand people “three times faster” than true news. Aral is concerned that this trend may be present in most other social media outlets, where arguments are fevered and frequent. Further, posts that concerned politics typically traveled deeply and broadly, and fake posts were even faster than estimates in other categories of news.
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