The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains

by Nicholas Carr

We’re never sure exactly what will happen when we touch the screen, but we know we might like it. So, like compulsive gamblers, we keep coming back for more.

A 2018 MIT study of message threads on Twitter, spanning more than 4.5 million tweets posted over ten years, found that fabricated or otherwise misleading stories are 70 percent more likely to be retweeted than factual ones.