Twitter "Fake" news





Twitter still to be one of the most popular social media used today by millions of people. However, as many scientists affirmedthe problem of fake news is now popular again. 

More than 80 percentof the Twitter accounts that spread misinformation during 2019 presidential election is still active and send more than a million of tweets a day. Twitter is trying now to prevent automated spam from being viewed by people on the social network. 


The numbers are surprising showing us about 6.6 million tweets linked to the fake news that was found in the month before the election. Many of those tweets are coming from the same accounts that were published during the election.
For fixing this problem, Twitter along with Facebook and Google, made some changes in their policies, reporting that Twitter will delete fake accounts engaged in a variety of emergent behaviors. 

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