B and D both suggest that the findings are not encouraging. The sentence from option B supports this conclusion: "A team of data scientists and social media experts from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology came to these dispiriting conclusions after examining the spread of thousands of tweets shared by millions of people over a span of 12 years." This indicates a negative outcome from the research.
Is the author of the article suggesting that the researchers' findings are encouraging? Which sentence from the article supports this conclusion?
A
Yes; A new scientific analysis offers rigorous proof of something that social media acolytes have known for years: Twitter is an excellent platform for spreading actual news.
B
No; A team of data scientists and social media experts from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology came to these dispiriting conclusions after examining the spread of thousands of tweets shared by millions of people over a span of 12 years.
C
Yes; "Falsehood diffused significantly farther, faster, deeper, and more broadly than the truth in all categories of information," wrote Soroush Vosoughi and Deb Roy of the MIT Media Lab and Sinan Aral of MIT's Sloan School of Management.
D
No; Vosoughi, Roy and Aral used this framework to map the spread of information on Twitter since it was created in 2006 all the way through to last year.
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