A new study finds that false information on the social media network travels six times faster than the truth and reaches far more people. Social media companies have experimented with using computer algorithms and human fact-checkers to try to weed out false information and abuse online. University of Pennsylvania communications professor Kathleen Hall Jamieson, a co-founder of factcheck.org, had problems with the way the study looked at true and false stories. She also suggested that calling this bogus information “false stories” does not capture how malignant it is. The researchers dug deeper to find out what kind of false information travels faster and farther.

Source: Egypt Independent March 08, 2018 18:56 UTC