social diffusion also makes negative information more “sticky.”
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- Sep 2022
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www.scientificamerican.com www.scientificamerican.com
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This winner-take-all popularity pattern of memes, in which most are barely noticed while a few spread widely, could not be explained by some of them being more catchy or somehow more valuable: the memes in this simulated world had no intrinsic quality. Virality resulted purely from the statistical consequences of information proliferation in a social network of agents with limited attention.
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“Limited individual attention and online virality of low-quality information,” By Xiaoyan Qiu et al., in Nature Human Behaviour, Vol. 1, June 2017
The upshot of this paper seems to be "information overload alone can explain why fake news can become viral."
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- Mar 2021
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world.hey.com world.hey.com
- Aug 2020
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cyber.fsi.stanford.edu cyber.fsi.stanford.edu
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University, © Stanford, Stanford, & Complaints, C. 94305 C. (n.d.). Virality Project (US): Marketing meets Misinformation. Retrieved 25 August 2020, from https://cyber.fsi.stanford.edu/io/news/manufacturing-influence-0
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- Jul 2020
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www.nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com
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NBC News. ‘Dark Money and PAC’s Coordinated “reopen” Push Are behind Doctors’ Viral Hydroxychloroquine Video’. Accessed 31 July 2020. https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/dark-money-pac-s-coordinated-reopen-push-are-behind-doctors-n1235100.
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- Nov 2016
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hapgood.us hapgood.us
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Maybe Rethink the Cult of Virality?
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- Jul 2016
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samkriss.wordpress.com samkriss.wordpress.com