The Washington Post reported on a BuzzFeed study that "found that adults aged 18 to 49 trust news and political information shared from friends more than news delivered from other sources". And this is, in fact, the true power of our digital social world where we have taken our sharing DNA and put it on hyper-drive.
The demand for accessing Internet-based services from mobile phones is growing strongly as there is a clear interest in checking emails, reading news and weather information, sharing pictures and videos, and accessing social network communities on the go [1, 2].
Among all social media services, Twitter makes an appealing analytical target for a number of reasons: the public nature of its content, the accessibility of the data through APIs, a strong focus on news and information sharing, and its prominence as a platform for political discourse in America and abroad [18, 19].
Twitter offers a short text-based form of communication with multiple purposes that include maintaining a social presence, keeping in touch, breaking news and information sharing [ 6].
The new measure makes it a crime to share "news, information, data and reports which is or are wholly or partly false" online, in print or on TV.
SamePage's wiki lets employees collaborate and share ideas, news, information in a central place.
If there was a time-lapse video chronicling how humans have shared and received news information throughout history, the transcript of that video would go something like this: Chest-thumping.
In fact, when you add in the number of links to unverified content on WikiLeaks or news from the Kremlin-backed news agency Russia Today, more than half the political news and information being shared by social media users in Michigan was not from trusted sources.
FORBES is evolving into a platform for the exchange and sharing of business news, information and ideas.
Pax Technica author Phil Howard reports on his new research that shows "more than half the political news and information being shared by social media users in Michigan [a pivotal state that helped Trump triumph in the recent U.S. president election] was not from trusted sources".
