Charles Montgomery

The more 'likes' we get for sharing fake news, they more we end up believing the crap we are sharing.

This experiment from USCB shows just how important social approval is to our view of the world. https://shar.es/afJuiS

‘Liking’ is Believing

Study shows the more ♥’s people got when retweeting negative fake news, the more they agreed with the content

The UCSB Current
Dec 20, 2022 at 6:21pmWeb
Show threadPatrick KennedyDec 20, 2022
@charlesincities am I allowed to like this for irony's sake?
Show threadRobert DenbyDec 20, 2022
@charlesincities Translation, we are DOOMED
Show threadGeek SlopDec 20, 2022
@charlesincities First impressions too. That first exposure is potent making it hard to discount later on even when it becomes clear the news is fake.
Show threadCarolineCherryDec 20, 2022
@geek_slop @charlesincities This is so depressing . How can we protect people from what is effectively psych targeting for political gain. It’s diabolical. We even have U.K. press repeating fake news partly because the press owners are supporting our extremist current govt.
Show threadGeek SlopDec 20, 2022
@stroppypanda @charlesincities I think we need to teach critical thinking and how to interpret the news. Then prod them to not be lazy. Democracy is no free ride.
Show threadCarolineCherryDec 20, 2022
@geek_slop @charlesincities We definitely need to teach critical thinking as one of the steps. Somehow we need to invest in education & reduce the power of press barons as well. In U.K. they have steadily attacked the state schools by failing to pay teaching profession properly and today we hear that many schools are at risk of falling down . It’s crazy that there is so little focus on education.
Show threadEmma Builds 🚀Dec 20, 2022

@charlesincities

Capitalism alienates us from communities and substitutes an assemblage of clout systems that fool us in to thinking we are in community.

Show threadCarolineCherryDec 20, 2022
@charlesincities This is horrendous. I suspected this was happening pre Brexit in U.K. . There were accounts on Twitter pretending to be working men/ women that believed the Far right populists & thought economic / legal experts were irrelevant . I feel sick that so many are now suffering because they were targeted.
#RejoinEU
#TargetedPsyOppsInUk