https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/08/technology/twitter-fake-news-research.html

This article was very interesting for me because it was about an MIT study about human behaviour regarding fake news and real news and how fake news will spread quicker on social media than real news.  The author of the article illustrates that fake news tends to spread more because it the news is falsified in order for it to become more interesting.  Of course when an article is more interesting people will share it more on social media.  I think most of us, including myself, have come across a piece of fake news on the internet and were enticed to learn more contrary to real news which contains a more boring tone.  This study exemplifies human nature and the way we, as humans, process information we see online.  The article also mentions that it is very important know the source of news story and think for yourself if what you are reading is reliable and believable.  This type of human behaviour is applicable not only to news; for me, I tend to do this for anything I see online.  If it looks interesting, I’ll learn more about it, and if it doesn’t look interesting I will not learn more.