MIT Researchers: 'Lies Spread Faster Than Truth'

To understand how false news -- especially “fake” political news -- spreads, MIT Media Lab researchers Soroush Vosoughi, Deb Roy and Sinan Aral analyzed spread across Twitter between 2006 and 2017. Their findings, which were published in the March 9 edition of Science Magazine, conclude that falsehood diffuses faster …

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  1. Mark Scott from Sage Projections, March 12, 2018 at 1:38 p.m.

    We needed MIT to do a study on this?

    “A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”

    ― Mark Twain

    I guess if you don't learn from history we are going to just keep relearning the same lessons.

  2. Mark Scott from Sage Projections, March 12, 2018 at 1:40 p.m.

    Did we really need an MIT study tolearn this?

    “A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”

    ― Mark Twain

    That was over 100 years ago.

  3. Paula Lynn from Who Else Unlimited replied, March 12, 2018 at 8:39 p.m.

    They don't learn. They don't learn. They don't learn.

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