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Second paragraph: The team's findings, published Tuesday by Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, upend popular misconceptions that misinformation spreads because users lack the critical thinking skills necessary for discerning truth from falsehood or because their strong political beliefs skew their judgment. So no. Reply reply.
Dec 5, 2016 · Incidents like the #Pizzagate shooting signify one step in a long, dark trail of real world consequences caused by fake news. Experts explain this history and why these stories are so hard to ignore.
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- Nsikan Akpan
Dec 22, 2020 · NewsGuard, which rates news websites according to reliability, found that people are engaging in a lot more news this year than they were last year. Engagement with the top 100 US news sources ...
Intensifying Social Conflict. People with malicious intent can use fake news to make American national conflicts more intense. Politically motivated fake news came from multiple sources: foreign governments, such as the Russian Internet Research Agency; American political operatives who used illegitimately-acquired Facebook data from the Cambridge Analytica firm to convince social media users ...
Aug 9, 2018 · The researchers who conducted the Pew poll noted that one reason people knowingly share made-up news is to “call out” the stories as fake. That might make a post popular among like-minded ...
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- Katy Steinmetz
Jul 27, 2018 · Despite the fact that it was false, it was often repeated. Problem Four: The illusion factor. If something is repeated often enough, even if it is false, people perceive it as true. For example ...
Jun 27, 2017 · People's limited attention spans, plus the sheer overload of information on social media may combine to make fake news and hoaxes go viral, according to a new study. Understanding why and how fake ...
