The spread of true and false news online c/o Vosoughi et al.

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psychological well-being trust "Falsehood also diffused faster than the truth. The degree of novelty and the emotional reactions of recipients may be responsible for the differences observed."

TRUE vs FALSE  diversity-bandwidth  epidemiology of news   broadcast dynamics assertions - claims "To understand how false news spreads, Vosoughi et al. used a data set of rumor cascades on Twitter from 2006 to 2017. About 126,000 rumors were spread by ∼3 million people. False news reached more people than the truth; the top 1% of false news cascades diffused to between 1000 and 100,000 people, whereas the truth rarely diffused to more than 1000 people."

social well-being stories ..... rumors virality social media social networks social bots "We define news as any story or claim with an assertion in it and a rumor as the social phenomena of a news story or claim spreading or diffusing through the Twitter network. That is, rumors are inherently social and involve the sharing of claims between people. News, on the other hand, is an assertion with claims, whether it is shared or not."

POLITICAL polarisation political and economic well-being 'news' = institutional source? "Defining what is true and false has become a common political strategy, replacing debates based on a mutually agreed on set of facts. Our economies are not immune to the spread of falsity either. False rumors have affected stock prices and the motivation for large-scale investments, for example, wiping out $130 billion in stock value after a false tweet claimed that Barack Obama was injured in an explosion (7). Indeed, our responses to everything from natural disasters (8, 9) to terrorist attacks (10) have been disrupted by the spread of false news online."

Soroush Vosoughi, Deb Roy, Sinan Aral, The spread of true and false news online. Science 09 Mar 2018: Vol. 359, Issue 6380, pp. 1146-1151. DOI: 10.1126/science.aap9559