No surprise. Which one are you picking up and eating?
âA lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.â
Seems to be attributed to Mark Twain.
But in any case not new info.
Not from the study focused on by the article, but a description of the work (and an interesting finding) of one of the experts reviewing the study:
David Lazer, a political and computer scientist at Northeastern University who wasnât part of the study but wrote an accompanying report, praised the MIT research but said the scientists may have missed a lot of bots and cyborgs â sort of in-between humans. His ongoing, not-yet-published research has found that about 80 percent of false stories come from just one-tenth of 1 percent of users.
Exploitation. Wonder how much that .001% are conservative astroturf operations?
People are easily confused, and here I speak as one who has spent centuries in courtrooms. Apparently, they say, a lie can run around the world before the truth has got its boots on. What an obnoxious little phrase, donât you think?
Mr. Slant
Terry Pratchet, Truth
Itâs a function of the cranial vacuum of those ingesting âfakeâ newsâŚ
Twitter? Some people need to get some form of life
You build it, they will come. We truly owe a significant part of our current state of affairs to companies like Twitter and Facebook. From their beginnings, they truly did not take into account their responsibilities in creating conduits for âfree speechâ. Free Speech is a wonderful thing when used morally and responsibly. Now their euphoric creations are turning to instruments of cyber warfare⌠go figure.
Whatâs funny about that is for certain social groups (young people mostly) being active on social media is what âhaving a lifeâ means.
Fake news on Twitter: âLike Sugar Through a Gooseâ
âFalse information on the social media network travels six times faster than the truthâŚâ
Like sh!t through a goose.
Or two scoops through Donnie.
Twitter loves lies. A new study finds that false information on the social media network travels six times faster than the truth and reaches far more people.
And you canât blame bots; itâs us, say the authors of the largest study of online misinformation.
Not me or my family of course, we talk not tweet 
2 truismâs I have learned in over a decade as a security guard:
- The world is full of stupid people
- Stupid people are the reason I still have a job.
On relevant sundry matters, the Imbecile, Gangster President yells "Fake News! Fake News! Fake News!..
But, letâs all settle down with the known-knowns:
=150% Lard to body mass for djtrump
=.00001% Micro-Penis to body mass for djtrump
Aah! No wonder, he canât yell âFake NewsââŚhe know it! and Stormy Danielâs got pics!!
ââFake Newsâ Sped Through Twitter Six Times 'Farther, Fasterâ Than Truthâ
Mark Twain just shit his casket.
Obvious GOP solution to this problem: defund MIT.