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Many tech workers are forcing their employers to reconsider how their products are being used by the federal government. When…
Editor’s Note: This article is part of an ATG Special Issue on author support. Catherine…
A diferencia del escándalo que originó la intromisión política y la venta de datos privados, perpetradas por Cambridge Analytica…
Indiana University Bloomington: “Researchers at CNetS, IUNI, and the Indiana University Observatory on Social Media have…
It’s not clear if Malaysia’s anti-fake news campaign is backed by behavioral science too. AP Photo/Vincent…
Anjana Susarla, Michigan State…
A new article reports artificial intelligence can be a useful tool in spotting fake news online, but it can also be used to…
PEW: Bots in the…
by Paul Braterman Bullshit is sticky, and by trying to stamp on it you spread it. Because its appeal is directly to the…
An estimated two-thirds of tweeted links to popular websites are posted by automated Twitter accounts – not human beings.
Welcome to the March High Five! On a monthly basis, the High Five post highlights the papers that have received the most…
The dark side of human nature is dominating the way politics is portrayed on social media, according to an unprecedented new…
“Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.” …
To take advantage businesses, buildings, and infrastructure will need to be re-configured - and we'll have to stop getting…
Cambridge Analytica, Facebook, and an academic walk into a bar fight . . .
You may recall last week a spate of stories and tweets claiming that fake news spreads further and faster on Twitter. For…
A recent study by Soroush Vosoughi, Deb Roy, and Sinan Aral looked at news stories distributed on Twitter from 2006 through…
COSTUME E SOCIETÀ – Lo afferma una ricerca pubblicata su Science, condotta dai ricercatori dell’MIT. Il punto di partenza per…
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Silicon Valley Is Having An Existential Crisis Over "Time Well Spent." But So Are We. View Entire Post ›
In the wake of the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, gun control has remained on the…
Here is the link to the widely reported open access Science Magazine article by Vosoughi et al. showing that social media…
A new study from MIT suggests "fake news" often trumps the truth. (Uh... figure of speech?)
An MIT study tracked 126,000 stories and found that false ones were 70 percent more likely to be retweeted than ones that were…
New study reveals the massive impact of fake news on Twitter. The post Fake News on Twitter Spread Faster Than Facts appeared…
Looking at 126,000 stories sent by ~3 million people, researchers found that humans, not bots, were primarily responsible for…
WIRED columnist Virginia Heffernan on what the history of online harassment can tell us about today’s contrarian crisis.
A recent study of the spread of lies on Twitter is an important advance, but the authors missed a potentially huge factor, and…
Eine Analyse über die Verbreitung von Informationen auf Twitter macht deutlich, dass Falschinformationen schneller und weiter…
One of the things that's become quite obvious, in the various anti-vax comments that I've followed and responded to on line, is…
Robinson Meyer in The Atlantic: “Falsehood flies, and the Truth comes limping after it,” Jonathan Swift once wrote. It was…
More than three centuries ago, Jonathan Swift wrote that falsehoods fly while the truth limps far behind it. Today, we…
An MIT research team has published a paper in Science detailing their analysis of the virulence with which truth and falsehood…
And we can't even blame the bots.
Les fausses nouvelles se propagent plus vite et plus largement que les vraies nouvelles, selon une étude qui a examiné comment…
Фальшивая информация и слухи распространяются в твиттере быстрее реальных новостей, сообщается в статье в журнале Science.
Согласно новому исследованию, слухи и фейковая информация распространяются значительно быстрее, чем настоящие новости. И боты тут…
Usanne nyheter sprer seg mye raskere og til flere enn sanne. Men ikke av de grunnene vi har trodd, ifølge forskerne bak ny…
Nous avons découvert que la fausse information se propage plus vite, plus profondément et plus largement que la vérité dans…
The spread of true and false news online. Soroush Vosoughi, Deb Roy, Sinan Aral. Science 09 Mar 2018: Vol. 359, Issue 6380, pp.
President Trump will accept North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's invitation to meet, "at a place and time to be determined," White…
It seems like in 2017 there’s fake news at every turn. In January, the Republican Party handed out “Fake News Awards”. After…
A new scientific analysis offers rigorous proof of something that social media acolytes have known for years: Twitter is an…
From a New Scientist Article: Sinan Aral and his colleagues at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) cross-checked the…
South Korea's national security adviser announced Thursday evening that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is "committed to…
A federal judge suggested Thursday that President Trump not block Twitter users, but mute them instead, The Associated Press…
Fake information was 70 percent more likely to be retweeted than facts, the study showed.
Thomas Jefferson was quite clear in his belief that an informed citizenry formed the very foundation of a functioning democracy.
Researchers find fake news reaches users up to 20 times faster than factual content – and real users are more likely to spread…
Despite the belief that armies of bots are spreading misinformation, it is people who are most likely to share incorrect…