4. How you respond to conspiracy theories: In the spring of 2014, - TopicsExpress



          

4. How you respond to conspiracy theories: In the spring of 2014, Facebook published a study on how rumors spread on the social network. The researchers looked at rumors identified by the rumor-debunking website Snopes that fall into a number of different categories, including politics, medicine, horror, glurge (i.e., sentimental stories that usually arent true), and 9/11. Then, the researchers found rumors posted on Facebook as photos, and gathered 249,035 comments in which people commented on the rumor with a valid link to Snopes. Ultimately, the researchers found reshared posts that received a comment that linked to Snopes were more likely to be deleted. So, feel free to keep telling your friends that the Russian sleep experiment story is[ nonsense]
Posted on: Thu, 17 Jul 2014 19:36:05 +0000

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