Lies are a commodity

Fake news travels six times faster than the truth on Twitter | New Scientist

Despite the belief that armies of bots are spreading misinformation, it is people who are most likely to share

So, people are more likely to spread something they want to hear over spreading something they should or need to hear. That makes perfect sense to me. How many people (myself included) eat the food that tastes good 5 times as often as the food that is good for us? it is called information consumption for a reason.