Post by Enter Nations on Mar 12, 2018 9:39:38 GMT
And we can not even blame the 'bots'.
False news is 70 percent more likely to be retweeted than real news.
According to a study in the March Science magazine, so-called fake news also extends beyond its genuine counterparts. The study covered notes and tweets between 2006 and 2017. It analyzed 126,000 news stories that had been tweeted by approximately 3 million people and concluded that tweets about real news rarely reached more than 1,000 people, while false news more important ones were extended to between 1,000 and 100,000 people.
Surprisingly, the study also separated the tweets from bots and real people, and discovered that bots tended to spread false and real news equally. The disparity, for the most part, comes from humans.
The reason why false news spreads so well is that they surprise people more. Those who retweeted the stories showed fear, disgust and surprise in the answers and found those more novel stories.
The aim of the study is to analyze why the false news is extended to help reduce that practice, since the previous evidence of its virality had been anecdotal.
False news is 70 percent more likely to be retweeted than real news.
According to a study in the March Science magazine, so-called fake news also extends beyond its genuine counterparts. The study covered notes and tweets between 2006 and 2017. It analyzed 126,000 news stories that had been tweeted by approximately 3 million people and concluded that tweets about real news rarely reached more than 1,000 people, while false news more important ones were extended to between 1,000 and 100,000 people.
Surprisingly, the study also separated the tweets from bots and real people, and discovered that bots tended to spread false and real news equally. The disparity, for the most part, comes from humans.
The reason why false news spreads so well is that they surprise people more. Those who retweeted the stories showed fear, disgust and surprise in the answers and found those more novel stories.
The aim of the study is to analyze why the false news is extended to help reduce that practice, since the previous evidence of its virality had been anecdotal.
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