Fake news spreads much faster on Twitter than true news, study finds

 "I was very surprised by the results," Sinan Aral, who co-authored the study with Soroush Vosoughi and Deb Roy, told CNN. "Not the result that false news travels faster than true news, but in the magnitude of the difference."

The study, which Aral said took about two years to complete, found that it took true news stories about six times longer to reach 1,500 people on Twitter than stories that were false. False stories, the study said, "diffused significantly farther, faster, deeper, and more broadly than the truth in all categories of information."

"I find it disturbing," said Aral, who said he has been studying the impact of social media on society for more than 10 years. "All of the potential consequences of our society being consumed by falsity. In terms of responses to terrorism, responses to national disasters, the impact on our national economy. I think the potential for negative consequences in those areas are very real."


Source :- cnn

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