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boem@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

Misunderstanding the harms of online misinformation

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boem@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago
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Misunderstanding the harms of online misinformation - Nature
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This Perspective identifies common misperceptions regarding the harms of online misinformation, finding that exposure to false and inflammatory content is rare and concentrated among a small minority of people who already have extreme views.
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    TLDR: You get misinformed, whoever you share it with gets misinformed and all it takes to spread this are random posts containing it.

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      Did you read the abstract? This doesn’t seem to be what they’re saying at all.

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        guess who’s spreading misinformation :D

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          But why?

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