A study has found that false news stories posted on Twitter travel much faster and reach far more people than true ones. The new research also showed that people not automated robots sometimes called “bots” - were mostly responsible for spreading false news. The study was done by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s (MIT) Media Lab. Results were reported in the publication Science. It was one of the biggest efforts yet to study the effects of social media on the spread of real and false news. Twitter cooperated with the study. The company gave the MIT Media Lab access to its data and provided money for the project. The team researched stories posted on Twitter since the service began in 2006. It identified and examined more than 126,000 stories tweeted by about 3 million people through the end of 2016.
Title: Study: False News Spreads Faster and Farther than Truth
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