The spread of true and false news online
The spread of true and false news online
S. Vosoughi,D. Roy,Sinan Aral
2018 · DOI: 10.1126/science.aap9559
Science · 6,953 Citations
TLDR
A large-scale analysis of tweets reveals that false rumors spread further and faster than the truth, and false news was more novel than true news, which suggests that people were more likely to share novel information.