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20 hours agoFlagging Misinformation on Social Media Can Greatly Reduce its Engagement and Toxicity
A large, independent study published in the prestigious journal PNAS suggests that crowd-sourced fact-checking to a platform's users can work spectacularly well at stopping lies from spreading. "We've known for a while that rumors and falsehoods travel faster and farther than the truth," said Johan Ugander, an associate professor of statistics and data science in Yale's Faculty of Arts and Sciences, deputy director of the Yale Institute for Foundations in Data Science, and co-author of the new study.
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