Why People Fall For Fake News Stories (It’s Not Just Irony Impairment)

“‘This isn’t about shortened attention spans. This is about an overabundance of decontextualized snippets of info.’ Facebook headlines and Tweets simply don’t consistently provide the cues one would need to distinguish weird news from fake news, ‘unless the http://ift.tt/1naneMU is consistently ironic’.”

source ArtsJournal http://ift.tt/XBSmiP

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