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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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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One of the biggest issues in addressing the problem set of dis/mis-information is the amazing black-and-white-o-vision lenses that policy makers use to view research because political decision making can't deal with nuance.
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