Friday, April 20, 2018

Biggest Study of Fake News EVER

This study contains around "126,000 stories, tweeted by 3 million users, over more than 10 years" (Meyer, 2018). On Twitter, or any social media platform for that matter, has more fake news than real news and the fake news spreads incredibly faster than real news stories do. The leader of this study, Soroush Vosoughi, has been studying fake news for 5 years said “It seems to be pretty clear [from our study] that false information outperforms true information..." This group of scientists have been trying to find a plan to finally put an end to the fake news once and for all. Can they do it?

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/03/largest-study-ever-fake-news-mit-twitter/555104/

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