For truth to reach 1,500 people, it takes six times as long compared to fake news Truth gets retweeted slower and takes 20 times as long compared to fake news Humans, not bots, responsible for fake news virality Human psychology may be to be blamed The study, published in Science Mag on...
When Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg promised Congress that AI would help solve the problem of fake news, he revealed little in the way of how. New research brings us one step closer to figuring that out. In an extensive study that will be presented at a conference later this ...
Study finds disclaimers on some false news stories make people more readily believe other false stories. After the 2016 U.S. presidential election, Facebook began putting warning tags on news stories fact-checkers judged to be false. But there’s a catch: Tagging some stories as false makes ...
To shed some light on this murky topic, researchers atMITdeveloped a theoretical model of a Twitter-like social network to study how news is shared and explore situations where a non-credible news item will spread more widely than the truth. Agents in the model are driven by a desire to p...
Fake news and the way it spreads on social media is emerging as one of the great threats to modern society. In recent times, fake news has been used to manipulate stock markets, make people choose dangerous health-care options, and manipulate elections,
This study examines the complex hybrid ecology of bots and humans on Twitter and fnds that humans spread false information at higher rates than bots. 56. Lazer, D. M. J. et al. The science of fake news. Science 359, 1094–1096 (2018). 57. Roberts, M. E. Censored: Distraction and ...
When primed to consider a story’s accuracy, people were up to 20% less likely to share a piece of fake news. “It’s not that we’ve come up with an intervention you give people once, and they’re set,” says MIT professor David Rand, who was also lead author of the study. ...
(MIT) recently concluded thestudyit has been working on to highlight that social media users find it difficult to either share a news story or decide whether it is true or fake. According to the institute, even if the users decide to share the news or not, it will decrease their ...
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However I could not find a way to both explore the specific techniques from this case study in sufficient detail, and argue for the significance of this process for television more broadly without making an overly long video that lost its analytic focus. After playing with many drafts and versi...