But news, true or not, spreads fast these days.
Primary workshop: Fake or for real - is everything in the news true?
Fake or for real - is everything in the news true?: further information Year 5/6, free of charge, a two hour after school workshop, maximum 24 pupils.
But the broader sell-off in financial stocks after Mr. Turner's report shows the velocity of news, true or not, in a market where jittery investors are wired to react quickly to information, positive or negative.
Of course, in this era of WikiLeaks disclosures, phone hacking by reporters and Internet blogs that pay far less attention to the strictures of the super injunctions than do the traditional media, the efficacy of any attempt to stifle news — true or false — is limited.
The only major change was that bots sped up the spread of all news, true and false: "This suggests that false news spreads farther, faster, deeper and more broadly than the truth because humans, not robots, are more likely to spread it.
