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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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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this tweet is a bit meta, isn't it? :)
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Is it valuable or important to find that, among fact-checked stories, the false ones spread further and faster than the true ones? Why?
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Also, here’s an author who may be wrong about his own study?https://twitter.com/dkroy/status/971824995923001345 …
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I despair over the incentive system that so corrupts the reporting of ‘news’. Thank goodness for people like
@zeynep who not only hold others accountable, but also gives clarity to the causes of so much misinformation.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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For me the issue with the study is that it's saying that continent designed to go viral does, while content not designed to go viral doesn't
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I won't even get into the true vs false news interpretation argument, the very foundation question the study asks is flawed
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