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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