paper · Soroush Vosoughi / Deb Roy / Sinan Aral · tradition:
empirical-social-media
A study of ~126,000 cascades on Twitter: false news spread farther, faster, and more broadly than true news, driven by novelty and by emotions of surprise and disgust.
The book’s stance. Bears on engagement-gates-reward-truth-loss, selection-picks-the-regime, and engagement-floor-of-raw-emotion. Supports (falsehood diffuses farther/faster; novelty plus surprise and disgust); pressure-tests the gate locus, since humans, not bots, did the spreading. Quote-backed supports/pressureTests edges pending extraction of the source PDF.
Availability. Cited by reference; no local copy held in the repo.