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This reminds me of a line from an NPR story. It said that "false" information spread twice as fast and twice as far as "true" information on twitter. No inter
by jwlake 6y ago
This reminds me of a line from an NPR story. It said that "false" information spread twice as fast and twice as far as "true" information on twitter.
No interrogation of why it spread was investigated. It immediately made me wonder, maybe people just thought "false" information was a whole lot funnier, and hence sharable.
The problem with misinformation is it vaguely doesn't exist. There's parody, non-orthodoxy, true things people disagree with for political reason, unproven things, urban myths, rumors, etc etc. These are all classes of information people blame all the ills of society on.
- mcphage 6y ago> The problem with misinformation is it vaguely doesn't exist. You don't think that people lie on the internet?
- intended 6y agoBy the time these papers are distilled to an NPR report, its simplified to an extent that nuance is lost. There are many papers on this, which will answer your question. The transmission cascades and cascade sizes for false info are studied. Misinformation for example is repeated, like a nuclear feedback loop, or more like gossip being repeated between people till it becomes a “fact”. Science related info propagates through the network only a few times, as if people who read it understand it and move on.