Fake tweets spread 6 times faster than facts: MIT study
An MIT study has revealed that false stories reach 1,500 people six times faster than true stories on Twitter. Scholars found that the spread of false information is not due to bots that are programmed to disseminate inaccurate stories, but due to people retweeting inaccurate news items. To conduct the study, the researchers tracked around 1,26,000 cascades of news stories.