On the first count, Aral notes, the recognition that humans, not bots, spread
false news more quickly suggests a general approach to the problem.
«People respond to
false news more with surprise and disgust,» he notes, whereas true stories produced replies more generally characterized by sadness, anticipation, and trust.
Not exact matches
He also said Facebook was becoming
more proactive in fighting
false news and taking down fake accounts.
For such people metaphor not only promises
more than it can deliver, but its promises are too often grounded on
false consciousness, so that a loss of faith in it is the beginning of wisdom — perhaps the philosopher Richard Rorty's discovery (bad
news for Haeckel and his kind) that out there there is really no «out there.»
He called out Luke Shaw, Phil Jones, Chris Smalling, the home fans, fixture list, the FA and you guessed it — UEFA, in a slightly tense exchange but the good (and bad)
news is that Manchester United are miraculously still very much alive in the race for top four as Man City and Arsenal dropped
more points in the weekend, giving the Red Devils even
more false hope.
Since then, the debate about how the media should deal with «alternative facts» has only increased in intensity as
more of Mr Trump's
false claims saturate the
news coverage.
As a result, a lot of what is being spread in the
news and on social media, are
more false than fiction.
The French President, Emmanuel Macron, said during his new year press conference he would soon propose laws preventing
false information from spreading on the web («fausses nouvelles»,
more or less equivalent to «fake
news»).
CBS 6 anchor Liz Bishop, the station's longest - tenured on - air personality, who has been at WRGB for
more than 40 years, read the Sinclair media statement on air that accuses the media of bias and willingly creating «
false news.»
«
False news is
more novel, and people are
more likely to share novel information,» says Aral, who is the David Austin Professor of Management.
An analysis of how true and
false news stories spread on Twitter reveals that
false news spreads substantially faster, and to far
more people.
«Now behavioral interventions become even
more important in our fight to stop the spread of
false news,» Aral says.
A new study by three MIT scholars has found that
false news spreads
more rapidly on the social network Twitter than real
news does — and by a substantial margin.
Tweet replies to
false news stories also contained
more words indicating surprise.
Discussions of
false stories tended to start from fewer original tweets, but some of those retweet chains then reached tens of thousands of users, while true
news stories never spread to
more than about 1,600 people.
In a highly stylized format
more familiar in live theater than in movies, he explores the parental shock of hearing your child has been killed — and then the shock of learning that the
news was
false — as well as the boredom of army life at a checkpoint guarding nothing.
Evening
news viewership continues to evaporate, and while the mass media aren't going extinct tomorrow, Crichton's original observations about the media future now rings
more true than
false.
Evening
news viewership continues to evaporate, and while the mass media aren't going extinct tomorrow, Crichton's original observations about the media future now rings
more true than
false.
The latter backfired —
more Americans started to believe
news of global warming was being exaggerated after the movie came out — the former made
false promises that could not be realized by cap and trade.
Allegations of widespread «
false balance» in mainstream
news coverage of climate change — as well as other mainstream media portrayals — have been voiced for
more than a decade.
At a later stage in their study, participants rated fake
news headlines that had been identified as
false and were presented a second time as
more accurate than novel fake
news headlines.
In the civil courts, it has been defamation law and threatening injunctions that has
more often kept
false news from spreading unchecked.
He's also announced new policies like
more clearly labeled political ads, and renewed efforts to weed out
false news stories before they spread on Facebook.