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All the News that Fits, Reprise 0

El Reg reports on a study regarding fake news and of how “social” media might more effectively guard against it. Among other things, it found that the study participants weren’t so bad at spotting fake news, but this paragraph leapt out at me (emphasis added):

Although true headlines were rated as “accurate” more often than false headlines, experimental subjects were twice as likely to consider sharing false headlines that fitted with their political outlook than they were to rate such headlines as accurate, implying that on some level they were happy to share information they knew was inaccurate.

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