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How social media works: My post popular tweet today (now deleted) passed along a rumor that turned out to be false. My least popular tweet tried to correct the record. People hear what they want to hear.
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How social media works: My post popular tweet today (now deleted) passed along a rumor that turned out to be false. My least popular tweet tried to correct the record. People hear what they want to hear.
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