Online censorship: A file picture showing Baidu’s company logo at its headquarters in Beijing. Chinese authorities blocked the use of phrases such as ‘I protest’, ‘long live the emperor’ and ‘life-long rule’ on Weibo and Baidu. — Reuters
FAKE news spreads faster and reaches out to more people than real news. Fake news is not spread by robots on computer programmes but by people.
These are among the facts that a team of three researchers from the prestigious MIT Sloan School of Management have determined from a study on the spread of fake news on social media.
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