Human Detection of Fake News

Data Skeptic

• Episode: Human Detection of Fake News
• Website: Data Skeptic
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• Published: 2018-08-02 02:00

In this episode, we focus on the phenomenon of “fake news”, which is, completely fabricated and most often partisan content that is portrayed as factual. When people are exposed to fake news, it tends to increase their subsequent perceptions of accuracy. The “illusory truth effect” for fake news headlines occurs despite a low level of overall believability, and even when the stories are labeled as contested by fact-checkers or are inconsistent with the reader’s political ideology.