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somefool Jun 29, 2023

First misinformation susceptibility test finds 'very online' Gen Z and millennials are most vulnerable to fake news

First misinformation susceptibility test finds 'very online' Gen Z and millennials are most vulnerable to fake news - Beehaw

> Researchers want the public to test themselves: https://yourmist.streamlit.app/ [https://yourmist.streamlit.app/]. Selecting true or false against 20 headlines gives the user a set of scores and a “resilience” ranking that compares them to the wider U.S. population. It takes less than two minutes to complete.

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Spudger Jun 29, 2023

I recall reading something about fake news and propaganda some decades ago. Can’t recall the source book but it goes like this:

If one person tells you something absolutely outrageous you won’t believe it. If a second person tells you the same story you will stop and wonder. If a third person, preferably someone you respect, tells you the same you will have no doubts about the story at all.

I have no idea how true this is but if two more people tell you the same thing…

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somefool

That's... That was true for me, I think. I'm old, didn't always have the internet, I trusted books and family.

But I trusted books, which made me a bit of an alien in my family. And then I acquired extreme suspicion of everything when, at the same time, I started paying attention to far-right politics, and my family got sucked into far-right thinking.

Now they went full Qanon, which pretty much radicalized me. Things are so emotionally charged for me now that I have to doubt and cross-check out of sheer and absolute spite. That shit robbed me of my family and I am so, so pissed.