<br /> Researchers said on Thursday, false news stories spread much more quickly and widely on Twitter than truthful ones, an imbalance driven more by people than automated “bot” accounts.<br />A study by Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers examining about 126,000 stories shared by some 3 million people on Twitter from 2006 to 2017. It found that false news was about 70 percent more likely to be retweeted by people than true news.<br />The study was published in the journal Science. It was one of the most comprehensive efforts to date to assess the dynamics behind how false news circulates on social media. <br />
