A recent MIT study about fake news on Twitter proved some surprising results: false information and rumors actually spread faster and greater than true stories do. MIT had researched nearly all of Twitter, and found nearly 1000 outlandish theories for just one event that happened, with plenty more results with other events looked at. At the end of the study, the researchers determined that the great spread of fake news on Twitter wasn't solely on bots, but with human nature. It was suggested that fake news had a greater emotional response than accurate information. Using analytical tools, MIT found that "fake tweets tended to elicit words associated with surprise and disgust, while accurate tweets summoned words associated with sadness and trust." It's easy to tell that fake news will usually have more emotion than the truth.
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