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The Disinformation Superhighway 0

At Psychology Today Blogs, Vanessa LoBue takes a look at how dis- and misinformation spread on the disinformation superhighway. She notes that researchers have determined the following:

First, they* found that fake news stories were 70 percent more likely to be retweeted than real news stories. Second, they found that it took real news stories 6 times as long to reach 1,500 people as fake ones (Vosoughi et al., 2018). This makes us all incredibly susceptible to believing fake news stories simply by the fact that we’re more likely to hear them, and we typically don’t hear them just once.

She goes on to offer some techniques to avoid falling for fabrications.

I commend her article as a timely read in this disinformation age.

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*Citations at the link.

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