Although social media giants such as Facebook and Twitter have taken
heat for spreading misinformation, it turns out that we — all of us —
may be our own worst enemies in the battle against the scourge of fake
news.
A new study found that people given accurate statistics on
controversial topics tend to misremember those numbers in order to fit
their own commonly held beliefs.
In the study, when people were shown that the number of Mexican
immigrants in the United States declined recently — which is true but
has gone against most people’s beliefs — they tended to recall the
opposite.
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