Social media has remarkably small impact on Americans’ beliefs

Thursday, March 28, 2019 - 10:12 in Psychology & Sociology

Social media had only a small influence on how much people believed falsehoods about candidates and issues in the last two presidential elections, a pair of new national studies found. And Facebook – which came under fire for spreading misinformation in the 2016 campaign – actually reduced misperceptions by users in that election compared to […]

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