Poor "truth discernment" (i.e., the ability to tell fake news from real stories) is driven primarily by a lack of careful reasoning.
"Since 2016, [social media] platforms have been under a huge amount of public pressure to act on misinformation."
"You are even more influenced by fact-checks on false claims that are aligned with your politics compared to ones that aren't."
“It's not necessarily that users don't care about accuracy. But instead, it's that the social media context just distracts them … "
"There's no one thing that solves the problem of false news online … But we're working to add promising approaches to the ... tool kit.”
“...vaccination endorsements from elite Republicans...can have an important impact on the vaccination intentions of everyday Republicans.”
When a user shares something...It seems that he’s mostly trying to impress his followers and entertain them.
Speed, distraction and emotions can obscure a person's ability to sniff out misinformation on social media.
"...the point is that the platforms are, by design, constantly distracting people from accuracy.”
"People fall for fake news when they rely on their intuitions and emotions, and therefore don't think enough about what they are reading."
