Fake news' on Twitter spreads faster, farther than truth, study finds

 A group of researchers believe they have and their study appears today in the journal Science.

Beginning in September of 2006, when Twitter began, and spanning through 2017, Professors Deb Roy and Sinan Aral of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, working with Soroush Vosoughi at MIT's Media Lab, evaluated roughly 126,000 stories that were tweeted by 3 million people, more than 4.5 million times.

False stories, the term the researchers used instead of "fake news," spread more quickly on Twitter than those assessed as truthful -– and spread wider, as well.

The effect was most pronounced for political stories, which moved across the site three times faster than other tweets, but also held true on any topic.


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