Sunday Morning Assessment
EFF defends its right to tweet it all
08 November 2020 - 00:00
False information — sometimes called fake news — spreads through Twitter “significantly farther, faster, deeper and more broadly” than the truth, said US research quoted in the Supreme Court of Appeal this week.
And false political news goes more viral than any other form of false information, including news about terrorism and natural disasters, and urban myths...
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