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Fake News — A group of researchers from Yale University have published a working paper that discusses two studies that demonstrate that some people have a tendency to be far more prone to an acceptance of Fake News than others. It is entitled “Reduced Analytic and Actively Open-Minded Thinking Help to Explain the […]

Fake News: A human bias against working out what is real?

This entry was posted in Fake News psychology religion society and tagged fake news harvard study on May 11, 2018 by Dave

fake news — Before we dip into the context of Fake News, let’s first cover the basics. The vaccine concept is generally known but let’s repeat it anyway for completeness. A vaccine involves being exposed to a variation of a pathogen that will not actually harm you. That then stimulates your immune system into […]

Is it possible to vaccinate against Fake News?

This entry was posted in Fake News psychology society and tagged fake news inoculation theory john cook vaccines on April 18, 2018 by Dave

fake news — A paper published by researchers at Ohio University explains that the flow of fake news might have been sufficient to enable Trump to win the 2016 election. Warning: The paper is just a research paper and is not peer-reviewed. It is interesting, but due to the lack of peer-review, I’d […]

New Study suggests Fake News won Trump the election

This entry was posted in Fake News society study and tagged election fake news trump on April 5, 2018 by Dave

Cambridge Analytica — The term “Cambridge Analytica” has popped up and so you might perhaps be wondering what this is all about. We have a few reliable sources we can use to dig into this a bit. I’m going to strive to keep this short and simple. 50 Million Facebook profiles Essentially the […]

Notes on Cambridge Analytica

This entry was posted in politics technology and tagged Cambridge Analytica Christopher Wylie Facebook fake news on March 20, 2018 by Dave

fake news — For some reason some people appear to be more susceptible to not only absorbing Fake News, but when confronted with evidence that corrects the misinformation, the Fake News tends to stick a bit. Study: Fake news’: Incorrect, but hard to correct A recent study entitled “‘Fake news’: Incorrect, but hard to […]

Why are some more Vulnerable to Fake News

This entry was posted in Critical Thinking Fake News People psychology society and tagged fake news on March 1, 2018 by Dave

fake news — A formal study entitled “Selective Exposure to Misinformation: Evidence from the consumption of fake news during the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign” has been published this month. Just to be totally clear here, the term is a reference to misinformation – news that is presented as true, but is instead partially […]

What do we learn from a new Study on the consumption of Fake News?

This entry was posted in media science society and tagged 2016 Election Facebook fake news study on January 31, 2018 by Dave