Why do Americans share so much fake news? One big reason is they aren’t paying

https://www.niemanlab.org/2021/03/why-do-americans-share-so-much-fake-news-one-big-reason-is-they-arent-paying-attention-new-research-suggests/

by rustoo • 5 years ago

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rbanffy2• 5 years ago

The part of the title that "they aren't paying attention" is kind of important.

ceejayoz2• 5 years ago

Yeah, OP should've removed other portions of the headline to fit in the length limit. Just lopping it off like this is bad.

IncRnd2• 5 years ago

Or, the OP thought people weren't paying attention.

PartiallyTyped• 5 years ago

Attention is expensive, and outrage is a 'cheap' moral desert or perhaps a scapegoat from our problems. In a world where there is pressure for and fro everything, we end up trying min-max our life, either subconsciously or not, and it makes sense that people fall for it.

rbanffy2• 5 years ago

Indeed. Outrage and prejudice are coping strategies for dealing with a complex and nuanced reality when we have cognitive budget limitations.

eugeniub• 5 years ago

Lmao awful HN headline

dboreham• 5 years ago

Headline truncation inadvertently tells truth...

JUNGLEISMASSIVE• 5 years ago

OP, when sharing this, definitely wasn't paying

blululu• 5 years ago

The article is about Paying Attention, not paying. This is radically misleading (and a little ironic). Also FWIW, the cited nature paper can be found here:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03344-2#author-in...

hatsunearu• 5 years ago

out of all the words, why is 'attention' is being cut off...

k__• 5 years ago

I think people simply don't have the timeframes, we're working with here, in mind.

Smartphones led the masses into the Internet just ten years ago.

They have to learn.

Sleepytime• 5 years ago

The American news media is tabloid level fake news themselves. As long as they keep breathlessly reporting anonymous sources as breaking news and pushing hoaxes With institutional backing I'm not in the least bit surprised that people will turn to any other alternative, regardless of veracity. As for myself, I've mostly completely tuned out (and generally ignore things like this on HN). Going a month without any "news" or social media is an easy way to see that it adds no value whatsoever to my life.

fallingknife• 5 years ago

Sure, we are the home of MSNBC, CNN, and FOX News, but do Americans actually share so much fake news as compared to the rest of the world? Citation needed on that.

Why do Americans share so much fake news? One big reason is they aren’t paying

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