“We show that overconfident individuals are more likely to visit untrustworthy websites in behavioral data,” wrote the team in the study, published earlier this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. “To fail to successfully distinguish between true and false claims about current events in survey questions; and to report greater willingness to like or share false content on social media, especially when it is politically congenial.”
Yet according to researchers, this lack of self-awareness could actually encourage the spread of fake news. “In all, these results paint a worrying picture,” they continued. “The individuals who are least equipped to identify false news content are also the least aware of their own limitations and, therefore, more susceptible to believing it and spreading it further,” they continued, noting that “Republicans are more overconfident than Democrats, which is not surprising given the lower levels of media trust they report.”
So folks, next time you go to share an article on Facebook, please double-check it’s real. We already have Michael Flynn pushing baseless allegations of voter fraud and Trump claiming he’ll be reinstated as president – we have more than enough of our fair share of B.S.
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