Sentences with phrase «spread false news more»
On the first count, Aral notes, the recognition that humans, not bots, spread false news more quickly suggests a general approach to the problem.
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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»).
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.
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 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.