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Huh, so untrue (or grossly exaggerated) results are more interesting, and that matters more for getting talked about than truth.

Thank goodness our newsmedia business doesn't work that way, or we would be poorly-informed in multiple ways.

Yep, basically. Very unexpected results are interesting and newsworthy and more likely wrong.

OR if someone is going to fabricate results, they fabricate them in a direction that they expect others will find interesting.