This reminds me of a line from an NPR story. It said that "false" information spread twice as fast and twice as far as "true" information on twitter.

No interrogation of why it spread was investigated. It immediately made me wonder, maybe people just thought "false" information was a whole lot funnier, and hence sharable.

The problem with misinformation is it vaguely doesn't exist. There's parody, non-orthodoxy, true things people disagree with for political reason, unproven things, urban myths, rumors, etc etc. These are all classes of information people blame all the ills of society on.