Fake news Spreads faster :MIT

Washington Mar 11: Currently are you reading news on Social Media. Be careful the news may be fake. Recently a study conducted by MIT has revealed new facts about the news that are spread in the social media.

The report has said that "Rumors have always spread faster than the truth.Disinformation on Twitter spreads farther, faster, deeper, and more broadly than facts. "

The report has also identified the reasons and said that "It is not armies of bots that are to blame, but humans."

The research was based on the tweets, retweets, shared during 2016 and 2017 and concluded that many fake tweets was spread during the 2016 presidential elections in the USA and current role of Twitter is being investigated.

The report has added that "It takes six times as long for a truth to reach 1,500 people as a lie, It takes 20 times as long for a truth to reach 10 retweets by unique users as a lie.Falsehoods are 70% more likely to be retweeted than truths."