Fake news has increasingly become a problem. MIT decided to
do a study to see how fake news spreads, specifically on Twitter. One thing
that found was “news categorized as false or fake was 70 percent more likely
than true news to receive a retweet.” They claim that he fake news was more
novel which is why it got more retweets. The emotional response of the reader
also factored into the engagement. They also claim that bots have nothing to do
with the spread of fake news. They studied them and found they don’t really differentiate
from fake or true news but just spread everything. So, spreading fake news
really is on us.
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