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Fake News Has Greater Travel Speed

Fake News Has Greater Travel Speed

Fake news tends to travel, by some estimates, six times faster than fact-based news on Twitter and other social media platforms.

That’s because the algorithms social media platforms use to promote whatever is most engaging or attention-grabbing are often at odds with what is actually true in the world, especially if one is prone to burrow into echo chambers where everyone agrees with you.

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If it is so popular it must be true.

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