The internet is a good book. Put it down.

It's fun--except when it's not--but it's not real life.

The Cheshire Cat. (Wiki Commons)

Having written for four years about disinformation, and why we circulate it online, I thought I'd pull together some of these pieces, and a simple summary of my current hypotheses and, where possible, conclusions. 

Essentially, my thesis comes from this MIT paper that suggests we are mostly likely to share memes that are (…