The Effects of Social Media on Misinformation

Is it more something that is intentional more malice based where you do have these kind of gurus and high-level influencers who are intentionally spreading this stuff. But i think there's also in this case at the other point  something fundamental about the social incentives on social media that lead people to spread and endorse misinformation. We've done some research on that so we looked at millions of posts on on both facebook and twitter or media accounts and as well as congressional accounts but what we find is that the stuff that goes viral is best predicted by the degree to which the language derogates the other side. The sort of out grouping receives a lot of engagement on social media negative emotional stuff those two