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It's also been experimentally proven that people have issues discerning fake news online. Our news literacy is falling rapidly. https://www.npr.org/sections/th

• olavk 9y ago
  Why do you think it is falling? As far as I can see, the article does not mention repeating this experiment over time.
• bornonline1 9y ago
  I was under the assumption that our news literacy was never high enough to begin with. So to say "fall rapidly" seems misleading.
  • a_tractor 9y ago
    Yeah seems more like people are used to passively consuming knowledge and information from consolidated media, all pushing a rather narrow, barely even two-sided narrative of world events, and so are still adjusting to, and indeed inadequately prepared for, an information landscape that for the first time in a long time isn't so tightly controlled and delivered. There is also the assumption that literacy in general was ever this high...
  • B1FF_PSUVM 9y ago
    If anything, the last couple of years have been very enlightening.
• Brockenstein 9y ago
  People have a problem discerning fake news in general. We just live in a society where so much noise is generated it's literally impossible for any individual human being to sort it out on a day to day basis. And that's only if you're consciously aware of the problem and flaws and weaknesses of human beings. If you're ignorant about either subject, or both, or don't accept that it applies to you somehow, forget it. You're relying on those flaws to guide your way and then it's just Garbage In, Garbage Out.
• CandidlyFake 9y ago
  It's the only way the news industry stays in business. Not just in the US but around the world.