Exactly! @Facebook @Twitter @YouTube have no option but to stop #misinformation Self policing has failed miserably. So there has to be regulation. Free speech vs regulation is tricky but we can't ignore it anymorehttps://twitter.com/caitlin__kelly/status/1324730148856410112 …
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I'm writing a post on this - it turns out that this is a function of Power Law memetics that are generated through social media, much as in the same fashion as "the rich get richer, and the poor get poorer." Previous spread of opinion was more constrained (and Gaussian) locally.
Exactly! Concentrates power in few. #misinformation is more likely to go viral because it is surprising and negative. I have been talking about this with @rmichaelalvarez
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Why that happens is what I'm writing about. Need to understand the deep assumptions under how we(and pollsters) couldn't figure this out. Short version - we were working with a stat. independent model, inherently Gaussian. Social media has changed all that -- with status metrics.
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That corrupts the statistically independent assumption. Now there is clear statistical dependence, that leads to power law behavior and larger aggregation groups.
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