In an experiment conducted over several weeks following Facebook’s promotion of the fake Megyn Kelly story, the Post recorded which topics were trending for it every day, on the hour, across four accounts. | That turned up five trending stories that were “indisputably fake” and three that were “profoundly inaccurate,” Caitlyn Dewey reported. | There’s no way to know whether those were the only false or highly inaccurate articles that made the Trending Topics feed during the experiment’s run. |”If anything, we’ve underestimated how often” Facebook trends fake news, Dewey wrote. —TechNewsWorld
Similar:
The insect apocalypse: ‘Our world will grind to a halt without them’
Snowfall at the White House (Official White House Photo by Tia Dufour, Jan 7) Tweeted by W...
McDouble is cheapest and most nutritious "food" in human history
No girl wins: three ways women unlearn their love of video games - Offworld
Google: "how can u" vs. "how can an individual" is not really about grammar
How Nasty Was Nero, Really?