Why do Americans share so much fake news? One big reason is they aren’t paying attention, new research suggests

a new study in Nature

Lack of attention was the driving factor behind 51.2% of misinformation sharing among social media users who participated in an experiment conducted by a group of researchers from MIT, the University of Regina in Canada, University of Exeter Business School in the United Kingdom and Center for Research and Teaching in Economics in Mexico.

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more on fake news in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=fake+news