
Why false claims spread faster than the corrections
The largest study ever run on the question found falsehood beats truth on every platform metric — and the reason is people, not bots.
Ranking changes, moderation calls and feature rollouts explained by what they do to your feed and to the people posting into it for a living.

The largest study ever run on the question found falsehood beats truth on every platform metric — and the reason is people, not bots.

A viral photo shows up with a caption attached. Here is what reverse image search can confirm about it, and what it cannot.

Platforms publish enforcement counts in the millions and billions — but raw removal totals mean little without definitions, denominators and baselines.

When a viral post vanishes, the internet's archives usually still have it — and a timestamped capture is evidence a screenshot can never match.

Bought followers are cheap and visible — follower counts jump, engagement does not, and the gap is measurable from the outside.

False claims travel further when wrapped in a suit — LinkedIn's professional setting borrows credibility from the office and spends it on hoaxes.