Flutterby™! : Before a lie can get its boots on

False rumors do not propagate like True ones:

On Twitter, claims that receive higher skepticism and lower propagation scores are more likely to be false. On the other hand, claims that receive lower skepticism and higher propagation scores are more likely to be true.

The above is a conjecture we wrote in a recent paper entitled Investigating Rumor Propagation with TwitterTrails (currently under review). Feel free to take a look if you want to know more details about our system, but we will write here some of its highlights.

I snarked about Facebook, and @takis_metaxas replied:

@danlyke @dweinberger @hananc Indeed, some results on Rumor Cascades on FB show difference. I think it has to do with the interface