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IDU Reference 5 - Key findings on true and false news - Coggle Diagram
IDU Reference 5 - Key findings on true and false news
Unique Users
False news spreads more than the truth because people, not robots, are more likely to spread it
In the graph the truth had spread to barely 1,000 people and it took about 5000 minutes on mean time to spread. On the other hand at the same 5,000 minutes of mean time the false information spread to about 8000 people. Also the false information was spread to over 40,000 people in about a mean time of 11,0000 minutes
Falsehood and lies spread much faster, further, broadly, and deeper than the truth in every single category of information
False news was considered more interesting than the actual news. This implies that users are more likely to hare interesting information
Data
The truth rarely reached more than 1,000 people
The top 1% of false news reached between 1,000 and 100,000 people
False news reached more people than the truth
126,000 rumors were spread by about 3 million people
Shares
Politics vs. Natural disasters
Natural disaster related information was shared the least and the slowest among people
Political information was shared the most and the fastest among people
Seven most common share categories
Political information was spread to about 45,000 people. Urban legends were shared to about 33,000 people. Business information was spread to about 16,0000 people. Conflict/war information was spread to about 14,000 people.
False Political news have reached more people with a greater speed and depth into their networks than any other category of false information
Scientific and technological information was spread to about 13,000 people. Entertainment information was spread to about 7,000 people. Natural disaster related information was spread to barely 1,000 people.
False news can drive the misallocation of resources during natural disasters and conflicts, misinformed elections, and the misalignment of business investments