Originally published at: https://eduk8.me/2017/01/yet-another-reason-limit-facebook-use/
By: Sarah Marshall The wide availability of user-provided content in online social media facilitates the aggregation of people around common interests, worldviews, and narratives. However, the World Wide Web is a fruitful environment for the massive diffusion of unverified rumors. In this work, using a massive quantitative analysis of Facebook, we show that information related…