Novel but untrue reports spread faster than true reports on Twitter, scientists say. (Northeastern University Graphic) A study published in the journal Science provides hard evidence that fake news — or, to use the researchers’ preferred term, false news — spreads via Twitter significantly more rapidly than verified news. What’s more, MIT scientists found that humans, not bots, are mostly to blame. It turns out that people are generally more taken by made-up novelty than by sober truth.
