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微信互动扫码或加米诺个人微信号：MeenoSpeaksEnglishINTRO听新闻，答问题。大家好，我是米诺。欢迎收听本期的《米诺读新闻》节目。STORY本期问题：1. Who are the culprits of false news on the internet?2. What kind of news do people prefer, false or true news?3. How much faster are false claims being shared than the truth on Twitter?4. What technology can accelerate the spread of false stories?It’s True: False News Spreads Faster and Wider. And Humans Are to Blame.What if the scourge of false news on the internet is not the result of Russian operatives or partisan zealots or computer-controlled bots? What if the main problem is us?People are the principal culprits, according to a new study examining the flow of stories on Twitter. And people, the study’s authors also say, prefer false news.As a result, false news travels faster, farther and deeper through the social network than true news.The researchers, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, found that those patterns applied to every subject they studied, not only politics and urban legends, but also business, science and technology.False claims were 70 percent more likely than the truth to be shared on Twitter. True stories were rarely retweeted by more than 1,000 people, but the top 1 percent of false stories were routinely shared by 1,000 to 100,000 people. And it took true stories about six times as long as false ones to reach 1,500 people.Software robots can accelerate the spread of false stories. But the M.I.T. researchers, using software to identify and weed out bots, found that with or without the bots, the results were essentially the same.“It’s sort of disheartening at first to realize how much we humans are responsible,” said Sinan Aral, a professor at the M.I.T. Sloan School of Management and an author of the study. “It’s not really the robots that are to blame.”问题回顾：1. Who are the culprits of false news on the internet?2. What kind of news do people prefer, false or true news?3. How much faster are false claims being shared than the truth on Twitter?4. What technology can accelerate the spread of false stories?OUTRO感谢收听本期的《米诺读新闻》。支持本频道，请关注、点赞或在评论区给我留言。我是米诺，咱们下次再见。