[3princip]

While not surprising that hyperbole and bombastic claims would fare better than run of the mill news stories or opinions, seems strange to consider all tweets as news stories. Also, their cited sources of truth are overtly biased with respect to politics.

[ghostbrainalpha]

"We classified news as true or false using information from six independent fact-checking organizations that exhibited 95 to 98% agreement on the classifications."

>> What cited sources of truth are overtly biased?

[mattkevan]

Bias = ‘I disagree’

[devindotcom]

The definition of tweets as news is explained in the paper. The bias allegation doesn't really hold up, and anyway the researchers independently verified and tested 13,000 more stories and found the same patterns.