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Fake News Spreads Fast, But Don’t Blame the Bots - Internet Society

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Fake news spreads much faster than real news, and real people – not bots – are to blame, according to a recent study. Fake news – defined by the researchers as stories debunked by six major fact-checking services – can spread 10 times faster than legitimate news stories, according to the study by researchers at […]

Fake news spreads much faster than real news, and real people – not bots – are to blame, according to a recent study. Fake news – defined by the researchers as stories debunked by six major fact-checking services – can spread 10 times faster than legitimate news stories, according to the study by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The researchers studied rumors spread on Twitter between the service’s launch in 2006 and 2017. While some U.S. lawmakers and other critics have blamed automated bots for the spread of fake news before the 2016 election, the MIT researchers fil

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