Can You Believe It? On Twitter, False Stories Are Shared More Widely Than True Ones

An MIT study tracked 126,000 stories and found that false ones were 70 percent more likely to be retweeted than ones that were true. Twitter is asking outside experts to help it deal with the problem.

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