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By June 2019, after initially resisting, many news organizations began to describe Trump's falsehoods as lies. [16] The Washington Post said his frequent repetition of claims he knew to be false amounted to a campaign based on disinformation. [17]
At first, the illusory truth effect was believed to occur only when individuals are highly uncertain about a given statement. [1] Psychologists also assumed that "outlandish" headlines wouldn't produce this effect however, recent research shows the illusory truth effect is indeed at play with false news. [5]
People may be more prone to believe misinformation because they are emotionally connected to what they are listening to or are reading. Social media has made information readily available to society at anytime, and it connects vast groups of people along with their information at one time. [ 16 ]
A new poll from KFF finds that many Americans still encounter misinformation often and don’t know whether to believe it. Although not a new phenomenon, health misinformation became even more ...
These unfounded attacks on vaccines pose serious threats to public health, risking the spread of preventable diseases and misinformation. Medical scientists have made it clear: vaccines save lives ...
The Economist used the results of an opt-in poll for its December 2023 story alleging 1 in 5 young Americans didn’t believe the Holocaust happened. Reportedly 20% of adult survey takers who ...
The Shorenstein Center at Harvard University defines disinformation research as an academic field that studies "the spread and impacts of misinformation, disinformation, and media manipulation," including "how it spreads through online and offline channels, and why people are susceptible to believing bad information, and successful strategies for mitigating its impact" [23] According to a 2023 ...
People got vastly more misinformation from Donald Trump than they did from fake news websites—full stop." [ 202 ] A 2019 study by researchers at Princeton and New York University found that a person's likelihood of sharing fake-news articles correlated more strongly with age than it did education, sex, or political views. 11% of users older ...