False news online travels faster than the truth: study

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False information on the internet travels faster than the truth, researchers said Thursday. … studies on the topic have been limited to case studies or smaller samples. Researchers say fake stories spread faster because of the “novelty hypothesis,” which suggests people share these stories because …

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