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rangerrebew

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Cognitive Ability and Vulnerability to Fake News
« on: December 12, 2020, 01:49:12 pm »
Cognitive Ability and Vulnerability to Fake News
Researchers identify a major risk factor for pernicious effects of misinformation.
Scientific American

    David Z. Hambrick Madeline Marquardt
 
 
“Fake news” is Donald Trump’s favorite catchphrase. Since the 2016 election, it has appeared in hundreds of tweets by the President, decrying everything from accusations of sexual assault against him to the Russian collusion investigation to reports that he watches up to eight hours of television a day. Trump may just use “fake news” as a rhetorical device to discredit stories he doesn’t like, but there is evidence that real fake news is a serious problem. As one alarming example, an analysis by the internet media company Buzzfeed revealed that during the final three months of the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign, the 20 most popular false election stories generated around 1.3 million more Facebook engagements—shares, reactions, and comments—than did the 20 most popular legitimate stories. The most popular fake story was “Pope Francis Shocks World, Endorses Donald Trump for President.” 

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Re: Cognitive Ability and Vulnerability to Fake News
« Reply #1 on: December 12, 2020, 01:58:57 pm »
Had they studied a little Hitler, they would have learned he knew this long before they.  He once noted, and I paraphrase, propaganda is used on the masses, never on the educated.  The educated will make their own decisions anyway.,  He also noted if you are going to tell a lie, tell a big one as the masses use little ones all the time and recognize them more easily.

So, come stories like hookers in Moscow frolicking with Trump in his hotel room and urinating on his mattress.