How Social Groups Spread Misinformation on Twitter

How can high-trust online spaces be developed? Trust is a technologically mediated social phenomenon. Social trust is both important and difficult to establish on modern media platforms. False information can spread between users at unprecedented speed and scale. Information on Twitter can spread rapidly to enormous audiences. Misinformation ultimately spreads on Twitter because the platform is structured to enable it. It does not just allow misinformation, but it incentivises users to submit misinformation for personal gain. It hampers opposition to misinformation by limiting the reach of sources of accurate information. It also delays features surfacing context alongside misinformation, if context is shown at all.