Fake news stories that are demonstrably false are 70% more likely to be retweeted than those of fact-checking sites PolitiFact, Snopes and FactCheck.org. Researchers at MIT found that it was humans, relishing new (false) information that they hadnt seen before. The most outlandish fake news, on the other hand, routinely reached well over 10,000 people. Fake news tweets were far more emotionally provocative, eliciting more surprise and disgust in their comments.”]