How social media makes it difficult to identify real news
Monday, March 30, 2020 - 13:00
in Mathematics & Economics
There's a price to pay when you get your news and political information from the same place you find funny memes and cat pictures, new research suggests. The study found that people viewing a blend of news and entertainment on a social media site tended to pay less attention to the source of content they consumed - meaning they could easily mistake satire or fiction for real news.