Small number on Twitter spread vast majority of fake news in 2016: study

Published January 25, 2019 This content is archived.

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An article on The Hill reports on a study by researchers including Kenny Joseph, assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, that examined the sharing of fake news on Twitter during the 2016 election and found that 0.1 percent of individuals accounted for nearly 80 percent of the sharing of fake news sources.

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