This problem of inferring something's truthfulness based on the number of times it's written down is nicely explored in the paper "Reporting Bias and Knowledge

This problem of inferring something's truthfulness based on the number of times it's written down is nicely explored in the paper "Reporting Bias and Knowledge Acquisition". https://openreview.net/pdf?id=AzxEzvpdE3Wcy https://openreview.net/pdf?id=AzxEzvpdE3Wcy