Question

Read an article about fake News. For questions 15-20, choose from (A-G) the one that best fits each gap. There is one extra sentence which you do not need to use

WHY FAKE NEWS IN SOCIAL MEDIA TRAVEL FASTER THAN TRUTH

*False news is newer than weak news, which is why we spread it much faster and more widely.

* Answers to false news include surprise, fear and disgust. True news tends to be received with sadness, anticipation of joy and confidence.

* Humans are more likely than excluded processes to be responsible for spreading false news.

These ideas emerge from a study published in the journal Science. MIT researchers, interested in how and why the true and false news spread differently, used 126,000 stories that were tweeted by 3 million people in total 4.5 million times. We hope the research will help convince more people that false news fed by social media is a serious threat to the health of all democracies. 15. ______ .

The researchers studied what they called the "rumor cascodes". A cascade begins with a Twitter user making a statement about a topic - with words, pictures, or links - and continues through an unbroken chain of retweets 16.______ False political news reached more people faster and deepened into their networks than it did. any other category of false information.

17._____ anger, fear, anticipation, confidence, surprise, malice, joy and disgust. Are "bots" the main culprits of spreading falsehood? No - the researchers found, it´s humans.

Calling for more effort to identify the factors of human judgment that spread true and false news, the research paper points out some obvious reasons to go deeper. 18.________

Two features of this study are promising. First, artificial intelligence was successfully deployed to good effect. Second, Twitter allowed access to your data and shared your experience. 19._______

More honesty by the social giants and greater collaboration by them with qualified partners to in dealing with the fake news is essential. 20.______. They find check and disseminate new, are well placed to assess veracity, atract masses of comment and discussion on social media platforms, and have a clear incentive to maintain trust in their own contributions to democratic life.

A. In response, the researchers offered to share their dafoset, too.

B. The study found that "falsehood spend significantly farther, faster, deeper ande more broadly than truth in to all categories of information."

C. That is the reason why fake news get people's attention.

D. False news can drive misollocation of resources during terror attocks and natural disasters, the misalignment of business investments, and misinformed elections.

E. Apart from offects on elections and referendums, fake news in social media can assist hate speech to turn into communal violence more quickly.

F. Traditional journalism organizations, for example, are potential partners.

G. The study compared the emotional concept of replies to true and false rumors by using hashtags and English words associate with eight basic emotions:

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Answer 1

Resposta:

15. E

16. B

17. G

18. D

19. A

20. F

Explicação:

ver o texto original na internet com o artigo do the guardian.