The Spread of True and False News Online.¶
Vosoughi, S., Roy, D., & Aral, S. (2018). The Spread of True and False News Online. Science, 359(6380), 1146-1151.
Cited by¶
4 citations across 4 artifacts.
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Primes¶
- Brandolini's Law
- Misinformation and fact-checking — a viral false claim costs minutes to produce; the verification ecosystem responding to it consumes trained journalists, editors, and infrastructure, and reaches a fraction of the original audience.
This sourceEmpirically documents that false news diffused farther, faster, deeper, and more broadly than the truth across ~126,000 cascades, evidencing the production/correction and audience-overlap asymmetry.
Supported in partVerified against the publisher's abstract
The abstract documents that false news reached and spread faster than the truth, backing only the audience-reach asymmetry — not the production-cost or fact-checking-labour half of the claim.
“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. Falsehood also diffused faster than the truth.”
- Misinformation and fact-checking — a viral false claim costs minutes to produce; the verification ecosystem responding to it consumes trained journalists, editors, and infrastructure, and reaches a fraction of the original audience.
- Herding Behavior
- Empirical work on misinformation cascades (Vosoughi-Roy-Aral 2018 in Science
This sourceFoundational empirical paper on Twitter-scale misinformation-cascade dynamics.
- Empirical work on misinformation cascades (Vosoughi-Roy-Aral 2018 in Science
- Response-vs-Propagation Race
- Information operations. Correction speed against misinformation spread, where falsehoods routinely outrun their corrections.
This sourceShows falsehoods diffuse faster and farther than their corrections on digital networks.
Supported in partVerified against the publisher's abstract
The abstract shows false news cascades diffusing faster and reaching more people than true news on Twitter, but it compares falsehood with truth, not with corrections.
“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. Falsehood also diffused faster than the truth.”
- Information operations. Correction speed against misinformation spread, where falsehoods routinely outrun their corrections.
- Selective Propagation
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This sourceShows that what a diffusion channel carries farthest does not track the accuracy of what is carried, so the surviving attribute and merit come apart.
Supported in partVerified against the publisher's abstract
The abstract shows false news reached more people and diffused faster than true news, decoupling propagation from accuracy, but it says nothing about the article's structure or its normative warning.
“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. Falsehood also diffused faster than the truth.”
- The structure supplies no such link and should not be used to smuggle one in.
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