A few take-home points on this big study on Twitter and fake news 1. It doesn't mean the majority, or even a sizable portion of the content you read on Twitter is fakehttps://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2018/3/8/17085928/fake-news-study-mit-science …
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2. All it's finding is that the false news stories seem to have this extra momentum, this extra energy pulling them farther and deeper into the twitter ecosystem
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3. The reason for that *probably* has less to do with twitter as a platform and more to do with the human mind. Our minds favors the novel, surprising, and emotional.
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agreed--it's not so surprising that stories that don't have to be constrained by reality are more engaging than ones that do. if you yell "fire!" in a theater, people are more likely to stampede for the door than if you yell "the door's over there in case you want to leave."
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yeah, and that type of thing is always going to spread. Which makes me think more that social media is always going to be a place with mis-truths spread. And there's only so much "fixing" of this problem
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