How Lies Spread Online

Kind of annoying how they mention the journal article and then don't link to it. Here is the actual research (paywalled): http://science.sciencemag.org/content/359/6380/1146.full

Re: How Lies Spread Online

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Post by js2 » Wed, Jul 25, 2018, 9:01 PM UTC

> Besides, as the vilest Writer has his Readers, so the greatest Liar has his Believers; and it often happens, that if a Lie be believ’d only for an Hour, it has done its Work, and there is no farther occasion for it. Falsehood flies, and the Truth comes limping after it; so that when Men come to be undeceiv’d, it is too late; the Jest is over, and the Tale has had its Effect…

Jonathan Swift (1710)

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/07/13/truth/

Re: How Lies Spread Online

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Post by sien » Wed, Jul 25, 2018, 9:19 PM UTC

You hire Judith Miller to write about WMDs.

Then get 'quality' news to publish it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_Miller

The cost of the NYT's 'disinformation' about Iraq was a war that cost hundreds of billions and thousands of lives.

Re: How Lies Spread Online

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Post by sparkling » Wed, Jul 25, 2018, 9:36 PM UTC

Reminder: this the same news paper that, on election day, predicted a 98.2% chance of Hillary Clinton winning the election.

Re: How Lies Spread Online

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Post by davidzweig » Wed, Jul 25, 2018, 9:38 PM UTC

sien wrote: post #6

You hire Judith Miller to write about WMDs. Then get 'quality' news to publish it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_Miller The cost of the NYT's 'disinformation' about Iraq was a war that cost hundreds of billions and thousands of lives.

"Credible estimates of Iraq War casualties range from 151,000 violent deaths as of June 2006 (per the Iraq Family Health Survey) to 461,000 total deaths as of June 2011 (per PLOS Medicine 2013), over 60% of them violent."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Iraq_War

Re: How Lies Spread Online

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Post by influx » Wed, Jul 25, 2018, 9:40 PM UTC

sien wrote: post #6

You hire Judith Miller to write about WMDs. Then get 'quality' news to publish it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_Miller The cost of the NYT's 'disinformation' about Iraq was a war that cost hundreds of billions and thousands of lives.

It's treasonous not to trust the 17 intelligence agencies.

Re: How Lies Spread Online

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Post by avgDev » Wed, Jul 25, 2018, 9:45 PM UTC

sparkling wrote: post #7

Reminder: this the same news paper that, on election day, predicted a 98.2% chance of Hillary Clinton winning the election.

Making a prediction and writing about events that have occurred is two different things.

Goldman Sachs predicted World Cup winners and were wrong.