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LESSON 1 · Don't Get Fooled: Media Literacy

PAUSE TO THINK

Who spreads false news faster — bots or people?

People, not bots

The same MIT study found that automated bots spread true and false stories at roughly equal rates. It was **humans choosing to retweet** falsehoods that made fake news travel so much farther and faster.

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