Agree, but I would widen this critique quite far into Twitter and social media in general. The motivation to promulgate information, factual or otherwise, on so

Agree, but I would widen this critique quite far into Twitter and social media in general. The motivation to promulgate information, factual or otherwise, on social media is attention-seeking, not truth-seeking. The method is sticky because it rewards attention-seeking with the desired attention, thereby optimizing on the kind of information, factual or not, that gains attention. However, had the link been one of the many news articles on this topic rather than a tweetbarf, I think this comment would not be at the top, and we'd be talking about the virus instead.