C People enjoy retweeting tweets that have unexpected content.
Read the selection below from the article.
What makes false news so much more enticing than true news? The researchers believe the answer is that false news has more novelty, which makes it both more surprising and more valuable — and thus, more likely to be retweeted.
They figured this out by studying a random selection of about 25,000 tweets seen by 5,000 people and comparing their content to the other tweets those people would have seen in the previous 60 days. They also examined the emotional content of replies to these tweets and found that false tweets prompted greater feelings of surprise and disgust. True tweets, on the other hand, generated replies expressing sadness and trust.
Which conclusion is BEST supported by the selection?
A
People are disgusted when they find out that a tweet is false news.
B
True tweets are usually about subjects that are sad and familiar.
C
People enjoy retweeting tweets that have unexpected content.
D
The tweets in the study were carefully chosen for their content.
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