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Podcast: The Future of Everything
Episode: Johan Ugander: How misinformation spreads faster than truth
Description: Stanford professor Johan Ugander is an expert in making sense of messy data. Lately heâs been working to tell fact from fiction online, as news stories spread on social media. He comes at the question from a unique angle, using machine learning to study the differing patterns in how both types of information spread (or donât). In so doing, Ugander has come to some interesting conclusions and, more important, suggests some novel strategies for preventing the spread of misinformation. False stories, he says, are more âinfectious,â with wide-ranging consequences for how they spread. Strategies to...