Colorado State University: Social media misinformation theory draws on classic tragedies, platform algorithms

Colorado State University: Social media misinformation theory draws on classic tragedies, platform algorithms. “Drawing on literature’s roots in Greek and Shakespearean tragedy and philosophical explorations of the nature of truth, Nick Roberts and Hamed Qahri-Saremi advance a theory that looks to explain how misinformation on social media platforms can lead people to take real-world actions with disastrous consequences.”