Sheril KirshenbaumI rarely post about Musk & #Twitter, but I am currently writing a dissertation related to the spread of misinformation.
This is not true. ⬇️
It's Just Jenn 🏳️⚧️@Sheril Wasn't there just a study that showed that misinformation spreads 3 times faster on Twitter than the truth?
GungJoe@Tweetfiction @Sheril Not sure but it sounds true. It's just seems to be the way of the world. Even within more truthful press the more disingenuous headlines receive more attention.
3rd Snowman of the Apocalypse@GungJoe Bullshit spreads 3x faster than truth.. which implies there are a ton of
M.S. Bellows, Jr.@GungJoe @Tweetfiction @Sheril
From the Portland (Maine) Gazette, September 5, 1820: "Falsehood will fly from Maine to Georgia, while truth is pulling her boots on."
Or as Jonathan Swift explained perfectly in The Examiner in 1710:
"Few lies carry the inventor’s mark, and the most prostitute enemy to truth, may spread a thousand without being known for the author: besides, as the vilest writer has his readers, so the greatest liar has his believers: and it often happens, that if a lie be believed only for an hour, it has done its work, and there is no farther occasion for it. Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it; so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale has had its effect: like a man, who has thought of a good repartee, when the discourse is changed, or the company parted; or like a physician, who has found out an infallible medicine, after the patient is dead."
(Both found here: https://interestingliterature.com/2021/06/lie-halfway-round-world-before-truth-boots-on-quote-origin-meaning/ )
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