[munificent]

> it's demoralizing that we've reached this point where misinformation spreads at the same rate as good information.

This has always been true. It's a fundamental part of the human story, an emergent property that arises from the cost to produce misinformation compared to the cost to discover the truth.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandolini%27s_law

[recursive]

I would expect that generally misinformation spreads faster. People that verify authenticity before spreading are slower because they're verifying authenticity.

[jjk166]

Verifiers may be slower to repeat, but those with a good track record of authenticity presumably have larger networks willing to take them at their word. It may take longer for Nature to publish something than a random crank journal, but Nature's impact factor is orders of magnitude higher.