Good thread on a **really** important study that is being widely misunderstood and misinterpreted. The study is great, fascinating, important and amazing. The interpretations have been wild, and some really misleading.https://twitter.com/Mantzarlis/status/972107720735232000 …
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The study is really well-written and the authors have gone to great lengths striving for definitional and conceptual clarity! And they are on social media and responsive!
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Ironically, the way a complex, subtle and fascinating study gets shoehorned into simplistic and surprise-eliciting headlines designed for virality... kinda makes one of the study's points!!!
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Folks, that Science study—and it’s a *great* study—does NOT DOES NOT say fake content travels faster than truth. Read the study!!! It’s precisely written. Saw maybe one accurate report so far.https://twitter.com/mantzarlis/status/972175251160301568?s=21 …
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There *are* genuine, profound and thorny issues. However, trying to stuff everything into a lazy, unsubtle and frankly apolitical information apocalypse type framing is... a fad itself chasing clicks and virality. Let’s please get the reporting right. Or try harder at least.
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Yes! I’d just started reading https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00FHTY1RC/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1 … and it’s got me thinking about appeals to novelty as an underdiscussed psychological lever online
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One of the biggest problems regarding fake news, in my opinion, is that most people understand very little about their own thinking. We like sharing things we find exciting. Things are often exciting because they are surprising. Things are often surprising because they are wrong.
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What you are describing here (and the authors model with twitter data) is basically epistemology of social contagion through affect
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Not a coincidence that the press function is to play on fears, novelty, and attention to push an agenda. Ironically the aggregate result from media coverage is the distortion of the implications of a study meant to shed light on exactly the thing that's being reported on
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