How we can protect truth in the age of misinformation | Sinan Aral
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Social Media Misinformation - The Story of the Internet Research Agency
The internet research agency, the shadowy arm of the kremlin on social media. We studied fake news and began studying it before it was a popular term. And we found that false news diffused further, faster, deeper and more broadly than the truth in every category of information our study looked at. The opposite false news spreaders had fewer followers, followed fewer people, were less active, less often verified and had been on twitter for a shorter period of time.
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