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World Service,2 mins

The YouTube algorithm that spread fake science

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Carl Miller, research director at the Centre for the Analysis of Social Media (CASM) at Demos, analyses how and why misinformation is spread online. Carl and science journalist Angela Saini explore why fake science often spreads faster on the internet than truth. (Image: A phone with information coming out of it. Credit: Getty Images.)

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