Sacha Altay
Sacha Altay is a researcher and the first author of the paper 'If this account is true, it is most enormously wonderful: Interestingness-if-true and the sharing of true and false news', published in Digital Journalism in 2022 and first posted as a preprint in 2020.
Who they are
Altay wrote the paper with Emma de Araujo and Hugo Mercier. This page rests on that one paper. His affiliation and his wider publications have not been checked against a source here, and no claim is made about them.
Key papers
Key ideas
What the paper proposed
The paper proposes that how interesting a story would be if it were true is a separate factor in sharing, and that it helps explain the sharing of fake stories alongside accuracy. The idea is catalogued on this site as Interestingness-If-True.
Sources
- Altay, S., de Araujo, E., & Mercier, H. (2022). 'If this account is true, it is most enormously wonderful: Interestingness-if-true and the sharing of true and false news.' Digital Journalism, 10(3), 373-394. doi:10.1080/21670811.2021.1941163