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‘News’ spreads faster and more widely when it’s false

A study of information sharing on Twitter shows people more likely to retweet falsehoods.
  1. Philip Ball
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Fake news spreads faster and more widely than true news, according to a study examining how 126,000 news items circulated among 3 million Twitter users.

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-018-02934-x

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