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Wednesday, January 15, 2020

Short Article: You're probably more susceptable to misinformation than you think

Title:
You're probably more susceptable to misinformation than you think

Author:
Darren Lilleker

Published:
Phys.org, 13 January 2020

From the article:
"Online misinformation works, or so it would seem. One of the more interesting statistics from the 2019 UK general election was that 88% of advertisements posted on social media by the Conservative Party pushed figures that had already been deemed misleading by the UK's leading fact-checking organisation, Full Fact. And, of course, the Conservatives won the election by a comfortable margin.

Internet firms such as Facebook and Google are taking some steps to limit political misinformation."

To read this article:
https://phys.org/news/2020-01-youre-susceptible-misinformation.html