Josh: — I've just read an article about a team of researchers at MIT who analysed 126,000 stories posted on social media between 2006 and 2017. They found that lies spread more rapidly and farther than facts. Christie: — ... Josh: — Actually the opposite. The typical person spreading lies tended to have few followers and showed little activity. What made false stories popular was that they tended to be more exciting than the truth. Christie: — Sounds interesting. I'll remember this
A) Do you think the research also explains why so many of us are fooled by lies in the first place?
B) So, Mark Twain was right when he said that "A lie travels halfway around the world while the truth is still putting its shoes on," wasn't he?
C) Can we say that we shouldn't trust the majority of the stories posted on social media?
D) Could it be because lies were being spread by popular social media users?
E) Did the researchers compare all those stories posted on social media?