Why does "lie" spread over the net more than the truth?

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Once the manager of 2chan "It is difficult (using bulletin boards) to be a person who can not be guessed that a lie is a lieAs I told you, the information on the Internet is cobblestone. While the truth is being written, there are lots of information about lies, even if it is not intentional, it may help to spread the lie. At this time, it is confirmed that the information corrected afterwards and the information that dislikes that it is a lie may come out later, but research by Columbia University makes it difficult for such information to be shared, and the lie is easily diffused It was.

Why Rumors Outrace the Truth Online - NYTimes.com
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/30/upshot/its-so-much-more-fun-to-spread-rumors-than-the-truth.html


As an example of a lie spreading happened in April 2013Boston Marathon Bombing Terror CaseAnd the conspiracy theory that the Obama administration has operated unemployment statistics. In a bomb caseInformation that is not supported complicatesAnd conspiracy theoryReporting that it was a false alarmAlthough it is being done, the ability to spread the information of the fake is overwhelming the effort to correct it.

So at Columbia UniversityTow Center for Digital JournalismMr. Craig Silberman, a special researcher at the University of Tokyo,Emergent"Was developed.

By tracking Emergent, it turns out that SNS is confined to the extent of truth and unknown information. For example, in late August 2014, there was information that "soldiers occupied Tripoli international airport in Libya, eleven civilian aircraft were caught and missing", but the information of the city legend was verified Site to be ·Snopes.comDespite being suspected of genuineness in, it was shared over 140,000 times.

Snopes.com: Are 11 Planes Missing from an Airport in Libya
http://www.snopes.com/rumors/missingplanes.asp


Of this rumor,A militia organization named Jintang Militia entered the Tripoli International Airport in JulyIn the future, snopes.com said that several bloggers living in North Africa started talking about "the private aircraft was missing at this time", the information was translated He said that it spread through the European press as if it were real news.

Regarding civilian aircraft actually said to have been missing or stolen, the governmental organization has previously moved it outside Tripoli City, and in advance taking into consideration safety the airport of the Republic of Malta , But the number of articles on snopes.com on which this correct information is posted is only 735 (at the time of September 29). When the false alarm spreads out, it can be seen that it is very difficult to modify it later.

Snopes.com corrected incorrect information on jet missing incidents articles but since then the number of shares that were shared thereafter is less than 800 times clearly different from the initial explosive number of shares and former journalist According to Emergent 's collected data developed by Mr. Silverman, it was found that if the false alarm spread, the subsequent correction would be very difficult.

Another follow-up case is "information of a woman who got the third breast (breast) by surgery", which recorded a share of over 200,000. A movie released in 1990Total recallIn a news reminiscent of a mutant woman who appeared in "It was diffused all over the world, but in reality this third breast is a removable artificial breast,It was a lie to say that we had the third eye on surgeryThe share of the article that uncovered that it was less than one third of the initial report.


Below is a bargraph of the number of Twitter, Facebook, Google+ share by classifying information on three breasts as "genuine article (Orange line)" or "false alleged article (green line)" What you did. From Wednesday to Thursday the information "The third breast is not genuine, it is an artificial breast" has expanded, but spreading can not catch up yet, the lie information that first came out is widespread.


What you can see from this follow-up survey is that people spread the subjects regardless of the authenticity of the information. Therefore, fun lies spread more than fun truth.