Stark results from MIT’s Laboratory for Social Machines: False information retweeted by more people than the true stuff, and faster to boot. True stories take, on average, six times longer than falsehoods to reach at least 1,500 people. https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2018/03/10/on-twitter-falsehood-spreads-faster-than-truth?fsrc=scn/tw/te/bl/ed/ontwitterfalsehoodspreadsfasterthantruthsocialmediaandfakenews … via @TheEconomist
Is it plausible that this is purely survivorship bias, i.e. that only the lies which can spread sufficiently faster than truths debunking them get a chance to spread at all?