tao Posted July 5, 2018 Share Posted July 5, 2018 To make decisions on a daily basis, we require a fundamental truth to aid us. A research group examined the extent of the spreading of false news through social media in a novel way. Making decisions requires some central truth in order to function in every day human activities. Deciding what is to be labelled as “true” and what is to be labelled as “false” has become a strategy in many different scopes of interest. False reports can disrupt anything from stock prices and our innate responses to everyday events. However, recent social technologies and their ability to spread an immense amount of news at extremely fast rates have facilitated the spread of false news. To better understand the range of false news; the diffusion of false news has to be examined after it has been determined to be false. Researchers took on the task of investigating the diffusion of news stories after they had been deemed either true news or fake news on Twitter over a span of 11 years from 2006-2017. Their findings were recently published in one of the most recognized scientific journals in the world – Science. The data they used to obtain their results constituted of approximately 126,000 stories that were tweeted by over 3 million people almost 4.5 million times. For the study, they used a very broad definition of the word “news”, referring to it as any claim that was made on Twitter with an assertion in it as news. Next, they classified the news as either being “true news” or “false news” by checking the information from six different organizations and they had 95%-98% agreement of whether the news was true or false. Interestingly, they found that false news spread faster and at greater depth and broader audiences than any true news no matter what the category of the information was. The greatest effect of the spread of false news involved political news. The false news stories also tended to involve fear and disgust. Contrary to popular belief, it was also reported that robots spread true and false news at the same frequency and it was, in fact, humans who were more prone to spreading false news faster than true news. < Here > Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Archanus Posted July 5, 2018 Share Posted July 5, 2018 Yes Bro, but this topic totally subjective I mean, according US News: "False News are the topics that talk about conspiracy"" and ""Good News are everything the official channels says"" :S So it's a great slap in the face jajaja Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luisam Posted July 6, 2018 Share Posted July 6, 2018 Explantion is simple: fake or false news are SENASATIONALISTS! And, as you don't see them on you normal, serios channels, when you get those news, you send links or the proper news to your contacts using your social media: twitter, whatsapp, instagram, facebook, etc... It's kind of an exponential chain reaction. In a very short time it can rach MILLIONS of readers! Just as an example, when recently Argentina's drug addict ex football star Diego Armando Maradroga had a drug-induced collapse while watching the word games, immediatly some fake news annouced his death because an overdose and the news got faster around the world then the real information about his condition. He actually recoverded and was traveling to Moscow and the news about his death were still spreading around the world. By the way, some of the most idiotic videos on Youtube, with sensationalist fake information are getting impressive number of views! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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