Fake news travels far faster than the truth

FULL STORY by Tom Whipple: TIMES of London…..

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A lie, it is said, gets halfway around the world before the truth can put its boots on. Scientists have updated the proverb, albeit less poetically, by discovering that a lie is also 70 per cent more likely to be shared on social media.

The truth takes six times longer than fake news to be seen by 1,500 people on Twitter, according to the largest study of its kind.