80 Percent of Twitter Accounts Spreading Fake News in 2016 Still Active

More than 80% of accounts known to have tweeted links linking to fake and conspiracy news publishers are still active according to a study on how fake news spread on Twitter by the Knight Foundation.

The Knight Foundation used tools from social media intelligence company Graphika to track and analyze 700,000 Twitter accounts who tweeted content published by 600 conspiracy and fake news outlets more than 10 million times.

According to the analysis, automated accounts designed to spread disinformation (also known as Twitter bots) are behind the vast majority of all fake news spreading on Twitter.

Moreover, most of them have been clustering in groups designed to run coordinated campaigns push the same fake news stories for covering the possible number of targets.

Knight Foundation's research team discovered that out of all accounts that peddled disinfor... (read more)

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