Lies spread faster than the truth because people need lies more. It's easy to find confirmation for correct beliefs, but confirmation for mistaken ones is rare. So people with mistaken beliefs are starving for confirmation of them, and eagerly consume anything that offers it.
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thanks! will turn to google + try to find some time to setup a small experiment on TWTR or FB
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I think the paper by mit media lab profs gives a slightly different mechanism. Lies aren’t constrained by reality and can be more interesting than truth — and thus spread more.
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Thanks for answering, I was going to ask why "people need lie more"
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Vosoughi, Roy & Aral (2018): "false news was more novel than true news, which suggests that people were more likely to share novel information... false news spreads more than the truth because humans, not robots, are more likely to spread it." http://science.sciencemag.org/content/359/6380/1146 …
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And more here in a discussion paper: http://science.sciencemag.org/content/359/6380/1094 …
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You might be referencing the “rationalization” camp described here: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/19/opinion/sunday/fake-news.html …
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