Less than 10 percent of Twitter users questioned fake news, study suggests
Published May 15, 2018 This content is archived.
An article on Digital Trends reports a new study by Jun Zhuang, associate professor of industrial and systems engineering, found that less than 10 percent of Twitter users expressed doubt when responding to a false tweet and that between 86 percent and 91 percent of users in the study retweeted or liked the original post.
“To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study to investigate how apt Twitter users are at debunking falsehoods during disasters,” he said. “Unfortunately, the results paint a less than flattering picture.”
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Articles on the research also appeared on WBAL-TV in Baltimore, KTVU-TV in San Francisco, KCBA-TV in Monterey and WBZ-AM in Boston.
