5 reasons why crises seem to breed fake news and misinformation
researchers using an 8-person diffusion chain experiment paradigm randomly assigned groups to transmit low- or high-dread risk messages. As the message passed from person to person the high-dread chains became more and more negative in their transmission of the message relative to the low-dread chains, and those messages became more and more distorted.
via Twitter and Facebook where the diffusion chains are no longer just 8 or 10 people long but spread across millions of users each with their own megaphones of various wattage.To further complicate matters, the current pandemic features afrom science at the outset of the outbreak because how could there be? It was new. Scientists are racing to find answers.
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