The Detector Lie

“A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.” —Winston Churchill

Metal detecting on arable land

Oren Segal‏Konto zweryfikowane @orensegal 12 godz.12 godzin temu

Stark results from MIT’s Laboratory for Social Machines: False information retweeted by more people than the true stuff, and faster to boot. True stories take, on average, six times longer than falsehoods to reach at least 1,500 people. https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2018/03/10/on-twitter-falsehood-spreads-faster-than-truth?fsrc=scn/tw/te/bl/ed/ontwitterfalsehoodspreadsfasterthantruthsocialmediaandfakenews … via @TheEconomist

Or, as someone put it: “It’s a lot easier to get people to repeat a lie they like than to repeat a truth they have to think about".