Spreading rumors on Twitter and mistaking retweets for truth

Wednesday, March 22, 2017 - 11:51 in Psychology & Sociology

A new study of the believability of information received via Twitter and the intention to pass on a tweet–whether news or rumor–is influenced by the number of times the information has already been retweeted. Number ... Read more

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