People are more eager to share news online than check if it is actually true, ... trends now
People are more eager to share news online than check if it is actually true, ... trends now
Post first, think later: Social media users are more eager to share news online than check if it is actually true, study finds Facebook and Twitter users were often too distracted to check post accuracy The study showed more than 3,000 people a series of true and false headlines
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Many social media users are more eager to share news online than check if it is true, a study has found.
Researchers found that Facebook and Twitter users were often too distracted to check if their posts were accurate.
David Rand, a professor of brain and cognitive sciences at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said this was not because they were 'immoral' but more likely because of the environment in which we consume news on the platforms.
For the US study, more than 3,000 people
