With 25.6 million followers, “I F*cking Love Science” (IFLS) is the most followed science-related Facebook-native page. Science personalities like Bill Nye, Neil deGrasse Tyson and Stephen Hawking also have millions of followers. PromotionsAnalysing over 130,000 posts from the top 30 science-related Facebook pages, Pew found that new scientific discoveries were covered in only 29 per cent of these posts, while 16 per cent of posts were promotions or advertisements. Interestingly, although the majority of IFLS posts were classified as new discovery-related they may not always be fact-checked, which is problematic. http://www.pewinternet.org/2018/03/21/the-science-people-see-on-social-media/

Source: The Irish Times March 29, 2018 05:48 UTC