{"id":4737,"date":"2018-03-08T22:05:18","date_gmt":"2018-03-08T22:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/socialpanic.org\/?p=4737"},"modified":"2018-03-08T22:05:18","modified_gmt":"2018-03-08T22:05:18","slug":"who-spreads-fake-news-on-social-media-you-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2018\/03\/08\/who-spreads-fake-news-on-social-media-you-do\/","title":{"rendered":"Who spreads fake news on social media? You do."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As noted here and in the next post, below, fake and false items spread faster on social media than truthful items. Based on widespread news reports, you&#8217;d think that bots and the Internet Research Agency were the primary cause but look again:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When they looked at who was spreading the wrong stuff, they found it was ordinary users of social media.<br \/>\n\u201cWe conclude that human behavior contributes more to the differential spread of falsity and truth than automated robots do,\u201d they wrote.<br \/>\nWhy retweet that post before you know whether it\u2019s actually true?<br \/>\nStatus, Aral said. &#8220;People who share novel information are seen as being in the know,\u201d he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ahhhh, its about virtue signaling our brilliance!<br \/>\nSource: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/health\/health-news\/fake-news-lies-spread-faster-social-media-truth-does-n854896\">Fake News: Lies spread faster on social media than truth does<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As noted here and in the next post, below, fake and false items spread faster on social media than truthful items. Based on widespread news reports, you&#8217;d think that bots and the Internet Research Agency were the primary cause but look again: When they looked at who was spreading the wrong stuff, they found it was ordinary users of social media. \u201cWe conclude that human behavior contributes more to the differential spread of falsity and truth than automated robots do,\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2018\/03\/08\/who-spreads-fake-news-on-social-media-you-do\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fictional-news","category-social-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4737\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}