Listening to a show last night about researchers doing "information trees" from social media. They found that misinformation travelled 16 times faster and further than a truthful post on the same subject, in a 24 hour period.

@swinemiester is that because misinformation social media posts hit hot buttons, like other scam/spam approaches?

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I do think that is part of it, but I think the algorithms used by the different services help it along as well
I only caught a blip of it on cbc while I was driving home. I'm going to see if I kind find more info

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