When the piece of fake news, two explosions at the White House, President Obama is injured got tweeted on Twitter, it was retweeted over 1000 times. (This is what I remember from the Ted Talk, forgive me if I am wrong) In that short amount of time, 53 hours worth of YouTube was watched. But why is that?
What I think is that it is a novelty. People respond quicker to surprising and new pieces of new then the daily newspaper. If the news was something like traffic jam on west 180, the only people that needed to know that was the people on west 180. If it says something like car crash on west 180, people would be more surprised and tell it to others. If there was explosions at the White House and Obama was injured, everybody would panic. The entire nation would need to know, unlike the west 180 news.
The impact of the White House news was very serious. The Dow Jones average fell over 153 billion dollars. Large companies like Disney lost big money, all to that 1 or 2 sentences. They panicked because it was the president. What if Joe Biden had to take over? Like I said, I the news was just sky is blue at White House, cook trips on plate, not too much people would mind.
This why I think that false news travels faster the real life news.
