Twitter's fake news epidemic isn't caused by bots. It's caused by you. – VICE News
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Summary:
In the multi-year study, MIT researchers looked at 4.5 million tweets, three million Twitter users, and 126,000 stories shared over nine years on Twitter. Researchers separated truth from rumor with six independent fact checking organizations: snopes.com, politifact.com, factcheck.org, truthorfiction.com, hoax-slayer.com, and urbanlegends. Then they compared the speed and distance of both false and true news.