Assistant Professor at BU. Researching malware, cybercrime, cybersafety, disinformation. Come for the memes, stay for the science
Mar 9, 2018 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
From my understanding, this Science paper does not compare the spread of real news vs fake news, but rather of fake rumors vs real ones - this is an artifact of their data collection methodology theatlantic.com/technology/arc… 1/
In essence, they extracted Twitter threads where someone posted a link to a fact-checking website to either confirm or debunk the rumor. Such event are fairly rare, since they only discovered 160k theads over the entire lifetime of Twitter (10+ years). 2/
