Who spreads fake news? On Twitter, humans are more likely culprits than bots, new study suggests

Who spreads fake news? On Twitter, humans are more likely culprits than bots, new study suggests
Matthew Braga, CBC News, 2018/03/09
Reports of this study on the spread of fake news are all over the media today. There are several major threads (and it's interesting to see which news outlet points to which). First, humans, rather than robots, are the ones that really spready fake news. Second, fake news spreads much more quickly than real news. Third, it reaches more people than real news. More...