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    Can You Believe It? On Twitter, False Stories Are Shared More Widely Than True Ones

    An MIT study tracked 126,000 stories and found that false ones were 70 percent more likely to be retweeted than ones that were true. Twitter is asking outside experts to help it deal with the problem.
    by Laura Sydell Mar 12, 2018 2 minutes

    "A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes."

    Mark Twain said that. Actually, it was Winston Churchill. Oh, wait! He didn't say it either. But you can find fairly credible looking sources that attribute those words to one of those two famous men.

    Whoever said it, confirms the basic truth of

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