{"id":3485,"date":"2018-03-16T14:06:33","date_gmt":"2018-03-16T14:06:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/?p=3485"},"modified":"2024-11-26T17:49:09","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T17:49:09","slug":"fake-news-spreads-faster-than-true","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/2018\/03\/16\/fake-news-spreads-faster-than-true\/","title":{"rendered":"Fake news spreads faster than true"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">A team from\u00a0Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) cross-checked the spread of 126,000 stories on\u00a0Twitter\u00a0against a database of stories fact-checked by six independent organisations, including Snopes, Politifact and Factcheck. They discovered that untruths were 6 times more likely to spread faster: <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/news\/2018\/03\/fake-news-spreads-faster-true-news-twitter-thanks-people-not-bots\">view the findings in Science magazine .<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000\">\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Other new resources concerning about fake news include <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk\/risj-review\/factsheet-understanding-promise-and-limits-automated-fact-checking\">this factsheet from the Reuters institute<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000\"> on the limits and promises of automated fact-checking.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team from\u00a0Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) cross-checked the spread of 126,000 stories on\u00a0Twitter\u00a0against a database of stories fact-checked by six independent organisations, including Snopes, Politifact and Factcheck. They discovered that untruths were 6 times more likely to spread faster: view the findings in Science magazine .\u00a0\u00a0 Other new resources concerning about fake news include [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[398,64,241,82],"class_list":["post-3485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-and-communication","tag-fake-news","tag-journalism","tag-media-and-communication","tag-social-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3485"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3487,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3485\/revisions\/3487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}