Fake news is 70 percent more likely to be retweeted than real news.
According to a study in March's Science Magazine, fake news also spreads
farther than its genuine counterpart. The study comprised stories and
tweets from 2006 to 2017. It looked at 126,000 stories that had been
tweeted by roughly 3 million people. It concluded that tweets about true
news stories rarely reached more than 1,000 people, whereas the top
false news stories all spread between 1,000 and 100,000 people.
Surprisingly, the study also separated tweets by bots and by actual
people, and found that bots tended to spread real and fake news equally.
The disparity all came from actual humans. The reason fake news spreads
so.
Source: YahooNews
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