{"id":1229,"date":"2018-03-11T15:42:27","date_gmt":"2018-03-11T20:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/?p=1229"},"modified":"2018-03-11T15:42:27","modified_gmt":"2018-03-11T20:42:27","slug":"fake-news-part-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/2018\/03\/11\/fake-news-part-two\/","title":{"rendered":"Fake News&#8230;Part Two"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of weeks ago I posted a note about an <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/2018\/02\/26\/fake-news-game\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">online game designed to help people detect fake news<\/a>. This game is even more timely than I initially thought, as I just learned about a new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2018\/03\/largest-study-ever-fake-news-mit-twitter\/555104\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">research study that found that falsehoods are more popular than truths on Twitter<\/a>. The study &#8220;analyzes every major contested news story in English across the span of Twitter\u2019s existence\u2014some 126,000 stories, tweeted by 3 million users, over more than 10 years\u2014and finds that the truth simply cannot compete with hoax and rumor. By every common metric, falsehood consistently dominates the truth on Twitter, the study finds: Fake news and false rumors reach more people, penetrate deeper into the social network, and spread much faster than accurate stories.&#8221; Wow!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of weeks ago I posted a note about an online game designed to help people detect fake news. This game is even more timely than I initially thought, as I just learned about a new research study that found that falsehoods are more popular than truths on Twitter. The study &#8220;analyzes every major [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1927,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[22214,732,29102],"class_list":["post-1229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","tag-media-culture","tag-social-media","tag-social-science-research"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1927"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1229"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1230,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1229\/revisions\/1230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}