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Tuesday, March 13, 2018, 5:35pm
By J. Carlisle Larsen

After studying nearly 126,000 stories shared by more than three million people on Twitter, researchers at MIT found that false or misleading stories reach more people than items that are true. These "fake news" stories also spread faster and take root on social media. We speak with Mike Wagner, associate professor...

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