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Falsehoods Win on Twitter
- cmurf 9y agoThis is reporting on an MIT study on fake news. The findings include that false information pretty much always wins, i.e. that people prefer to spread falsehoods than truth. And it doesn't seem to have anything to do with bots, surmising it might be something embedded in human nature. falsehoods were still 70 percent more likely to get retweeted than accurate news
- dragonwriter 9y agoFalsehoods can be narrowly crafted to appeal to an identity groups defining beliefs; truth has the same advantage in terms of confirmation bias only coincidentally.