Any hope of ever understanding the spread and influence of fake news

Fake news very irrupted in the 2016 American election. The problem is very big, the amount of fakes news is mind-blowing, according to David Lazer, a researcher at Northeastern University, counting fake news exposure is like counting people in a fun house. The reason why they spread so fast is because those fakes news page are usually followed by people who follow valuable source as well, so they get messed up between the valuable one and the fake one. And they’re not to blame because the fake articles are very similar to reliable one. The best way to spot fake news is to look at the…