MIT Researchers: 'Lies Spread Faster Than Truth'
- by Joe Mandese @mp_joemandese, March 11, 2018
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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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.
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.
They don't learn. They don't learn. They don't learn.