Remember this: Email 50%, Text 60%, FB 80%, Twitter 98%.

[CapnSteve]

I worked for a company who did “text analytics” (think the Predator program used by our intelligence to “read emails to find terrorists) and we used the tech for a company wanting to get data on the efficacy of their products. To the end we developed a “lie detector” for social media. The results were stunning: Email 50% lies, Text 60% lies, FB 80% lies, Twitter 98% lies!

If you want the truth, delete your Twitter account now. Don’t look to FB for news.

And for God’s sake don’t read Trump tweets (or listen to any reporting about them!)!!!

[hlthe2b]

1. Given Jack Dorsey's twitter acct was hacked, what's to keep Trump's from and someone starting WWIII?

[Captain Stern]

2. I'd need some more info about this to not think it was just silly.

E-mails aren't social media.

Texts aren't social media.

FB is 80% lies? What does that mean? Does that mean when folks post pictures of their vacations or grandkids 80% of them aren't real?

I don't think most people get their news from Facebook or Twitter.

[leftieNanner]

3. In 2016

There were many posts about Killery Clinton that one former FB friend posted all the time. He was a Bernie to Stein voter and he believed all the Russian BS about Secretary Clinton. And then he would repost articles about how the Russian infiltration was a hoax. That's what the OP is referring to here. Not personal photos of vacations.

[Captain Stern]

5. I know there are lies on Facebook.

Your anecdote is an example of one of them.

With all due respect, I don't think you're any more qualified to say what the OP is referring to than I am.

Neither of us are mind readers.

[CapnSteve]

8. I'm not...the algorithm produced the results

...not me. The program “read” or looked at how many times the same text string was used, the proximity of certain phrases, etc.

Just think of how awesome your life would be without all the breathless reporting on Trumps 100% lying tweets!

[CapnSteve]

6. For our client...

...we lumped text and emails into the social media spectrum. They wanted a consistent way to evaluate comments about their products.

The 80% FB stat relates to not only ads disguised as “real” but also users projecting what they want you to think about them, not reality. How many of your family members on FB put a “happy face” on what is going on in their lives? A lie.

[displacedtexan]

4. I have yet to see a tweet lie not stomped on immediately by hundreds or thousands.

The replies are swift & vicious.

[CapnSteve]

7. How many of those stomps are robots?

...and how many are lies in response? The pint I trying to make is that Twitter is not real - ignore it.

Pint...lol point.

[Thekaspervote]

9. You certainly make some interesting points. Bookmarking FFR

[CapnSteve]

10. Thanks! Social media is like news junk food...

If only we returned to researched and vetted news...like maybe a newspaper? So many of my family believe what they read on FB and Twitter 100%. So frustrating!

[JDC]

11. Maybe some context? but truth be told, I lied about the ham sandwich I tweeted anout

Oh, and as I say almost daily, twitter is shit.

[smirkymonkey]

12. K&R