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Can you link the study? As far as I'm aware, even a relatively small proportion of misleading news, if it hits the right political nerves, could cause real dama
by happytoexplain 8y ago
Can you link the study? As far as I'm aware, even a relatively small proportion of misleading news, if it hits the right political nerves, could cause real damage to a society, so I'm interested in how the study defines "not that widespread", and what the implications of that are.
- dingaling 8y agoWhich is exactly why state-level propaganda campaigns against other states are so persistent; weaponised fakenews. And why governments are so sensitive about inbound 'fakery'
- partiallypro 8y agohttp://advances.sciencemag.org/content/5/1/eaau4586.full http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/5/1/eaau4586.full Funny enough the headline the media took from this study was that older people shared fake news more...you probably saw that part everywhere. What they didn't share is that the study says it is actually pretty rare in every age group.