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.

Type

Journal article

Intellectual base

Primary research

Year

2018

DOI

10.1126/science.aap9559

Link

https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aap9559

Cited from

behavioral_economics, philosophy, physical_sciences, systems_cybernetics

Cited by

4 citations across 4 artifacts.

Each citation links to the sentence it supports in the citing article.

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.

• Herding Behavior
  • Empirical work on misinformation cascades (Vosoughi-Roy-Aral 2018 in Science

    This sourceFoundational empirical paper on Twitter-scale misinformation-cascade dynamics.

• 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.

• Selective Propagation
  • The structure supplies no such link and should not be used to smuggle one in.

    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.

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