Fake News Is a Huge Problem, Unless It’s Not

No one has ever answered the question, how much fake news is there? Until now.

Show Notes

Despite what you think, fake news is a tiny fraction of our news diet, according to Jennifer Allen, a Ph.D. student at the MIT Sloan School of Management and the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy, and lead author of the research study, “Evaluating the Fake News Problem at the Scale of the Information Ecosystem."

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