By: Alexis Sobel Fitts | CJR
From the beginning the story seemed suspect, but that didn’t stop the
New York Post’s
report last month of a surgically enhanced, three-breasted woman from overtaking the internet. By the time the story was debunked, just a day later, the tabloid-friendly tale had already made the rounds, generating posts on BuzzFeed,
The Week, The Telegraph and the New York
Daily News. Together, those stories were shared almost 190,000 times on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+. But stories correcting the record, like TMZ’s “
3-Boobed Woman a Fake,” generated
about a third as many shares. - See more at: http://www.cjr.org/behind_the_news/corrections_dont_go_viral.php#sthash.uNPGNCQM.dpuf
From the beginning the story seemed suspect, but that didn’t stop the
New York Post’s report last month of a surgically enhanced, three-breasted woman from overtaking the internet. By the time the story was debunked, just a day later, the tabloid-friendly tale had already made the rounds, generating posts on BuzzFeed, The Week,
The Telegraph and the
New York Daily News. Together, those stories were shared almost 190,000 times on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+. But stories correcting the record, like TMZ’s “3-Boobed Woman a Fake,” generated about a third as many shares.
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