Sundance508
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- May 24, 2016
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For those of us 'in the know' we generally understand how it works but for too many who have been duped by fake news...perhaps this will help them to understand.
'The logical part of your brain really, really likes listening to the social part, which just wants to fit in.
'If efforts by foreign and domestic powers to influence American society via disinformation — like the “fake news” that spread during last year’s presidential election — are rising as a national-security concern, then we need to know why such antics work. How does an adversarial government or domestic subversives go about persuading an entire population that something is true, or that one truth is more important or relevant than another?'
Why Fake News Spreads: A Neurological Explanation
'The logical part of your brain really, really likes listening to the social part, which just wants to fit in.
'If efforts by foreign and domestic powers to influence American society via disinformation — like the “fake news” that spread during last year’s presidential election — are rising as a national-security concern, then we need to know why such antics work. How does an adversarial government or domestic subversives go about persuading an entire population that something is true, or that one truth is more important or relevant than another?'
Why Fake News Spreads: A Neurological Explanation
