
Software definitely helped cause the pernicious problem of fake news – but could also ameliorate it, says data expert Emil Eifrem, in a guest blogpost. Time was it was the tabloid newspapers that cornered the market when it came to fake news (remember ‘Freddy Starr Ate My Hamster’?).These days it’s a whole industry in itself – with the technology in the hands of people who don’t even pretend to be objective journalists.
In fact, traditional journalism’s decline has meant the loss of checks and balances, allowing fake news a free and disruptive reign.Technology advances also supports the ways misinformation is spawned and travels so rapidly, as social media is after all about active sharing.
According to one of the biggest studies to date on the problem, conducted by researchers at MIT and published in March 2018 in the journal Science, the truth takes six times longer to be seen on Twitter than misinformation.
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