{"id":137,"date":"2018-03-26T15:25:06","date_gmt":"2018-03-26T15:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.ieee.org\/sagroups-7011\/?p=137"},"modified":"2020-06-26T16:17:23","modified_gmt":"2020-06-26T16:17:23","slug":"the-expeditious-spread-of-fake-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sagroups.ieee.org\/7011\/2018\/03\/26\/the-expeditious-spread-of-fake-news\/","title":{"rendered":"The expeditious spread of fake news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The massive new study analyzes every major contested news story in English across the span of Twitter\u2019s existence\u2014some 126,000 stories, tweeted by 3 million users, over more than 10 years\u2014and finds that the truth simply cannot compete with hoax and rumor. By every common metric, falsehood consistently dominates the truth on Twitter, the study finds: Fake news and false rumors reach more people, penetrate deeper into the social network, and spread much faster than accurate stories.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2018\/03\/largest-study-ever-fake-news-mit-twitter\/555104\/\">https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2018\/03\/largest-study-ever-fake-news-mit-twitter\/555104\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The MIT study\u00a0published in <em>Science<\/em> the above article references can be found here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/science.sciencemag.org\/content\/359\/6380\/1146\">http:\/\/science.sciencemag.org\/content\/359\/6380\/1146<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The massive new study analyzes every major contested news story in English across the span of Twitter\u2019s existence\u2014some 126,000 stories, tweeted by 3 million users, over more than 10 years\u2014and finds that the truth simply cannot compete with hoax and rumor. By every common metric, falsehood consistently dominates the truth on Twitter, the study finds: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":322,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1149179],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fake-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sagroups.ieee.org\/7011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sagroups.ieee.org\/7011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sagroups.ieee.org\/7011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sagroups.ieee.org\/7011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/322"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sagroups.ieee.org\/7011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sagroups.ieee.org\/7011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sagroups.ieee.org\/7011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sagroups.ieee.org\/7011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sagroups.ieee.org\/7011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}