Tuesday, August 21, 2018

How Your Brain Tricks You Into Believing Fake News

No quick fix...


Sitting in front of a computer not long ago, a tenured history professor faced a challenge that billions of us do everyday: deciding whether to believe something on the Internet, Katy Steinmetz reports on time.com.

What the professor never realized...is that the group in question he had found is a socially conservative splinter faction that broke away from the mainstream American Academy of Pediatrics over the issue of adoption by same-sex couples, Steinmetz wrote.

Why are even the smartest among us so bad at making judgments about who to trust on the web?  How can we get better?


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