A new study finds that false information on the social media network travels six times faster than the truth and reaches far more people. Social media companies have experimented with using computer algorithms and human fact-checkers to try to weed out false information and abuse online. University of Pennsylvania communications professor Kathleen Hall Jamieson, a co-founder of factcheck.org, had problems with the way the study looked at true and false stories. She also suggested that calling this bogus information "false stories" does not capture how malignant it is. The researchers dug deeper to find out what kind of false information travels faster and farther.
Study finds false stories travel way faster than the truth
A new study finds that false information on the social media network travels six times faster than the truth and reaches far more people. Social media companies have experimented with using computer algorithms and human fact-checkers to try to weed out false information and abuse online. The MIT study took the 126,285 stories and checked them against six independent fact-checking sites — snopes.com, politifact.com, factcheck.org, truthorfiction.com, hoax-slayer.com and urbanlegends.about.com— to classify them as true, false or mixed. She also suggested that calling this bogus information "false stories" does not capture how malignant it is. The researchers dug deeper to find out what kind of false information travels faster and farther.
Study finds false stories on Twitter travel way faster than the truth
As it stated in WASHINGTON — A new study finds that false information on the social media network Twitter travels six times faster than the truth and reaches far more people. The scientists calculated that the average false story takes about 10 hours to reach 1,500 Twitter users, versus about 60 hours for the truth. Social media companies have experimented with using computer algorithms and human fact-checkers to try to weed out false information and abuse online. She also suggested that calling this bogus information "false stories" does not capture how malignant it is. The researchers dug deeper to find out what kind of false information travels faster and farther.Author
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