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  • ‘Fake news’: Incorrect, but hard to correct. The role of cognitive ability on the impact of false information on social impressions

    February 11, 2019

    The present experiment (N=390) examined how people adjust their judgment after they learn that crucial information on which their initial evaluation was based is incorrect. In line with our expectations, […]

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  • Telling the truth about believing the lies? Evidence for the limited prevalence of expressive survey responding

    February 11, 2019

    Large numbers of Americans endorse political rumors on surveys. But do they truly believe what they say? In this paper, I assess the extent to which subscription to political rumors […]

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  • The Elusive Backfire Effect: Mass Attitudes’ Steadfast Factual Adherence

    February 7, 2019

    Can citizens heed factual information, even when such information challenges their partisan and ideological attachments? The “backfire effect,” described by Nyhan and Reifler says no: rather than simply ignoring factual […]

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  • The Elusive Backfire Effect: Mass Attitudes’ Steadfast Factual Adherence

    February 7, 2019

    Can citizens heed factual information, even when such information challenges their partisan and ideological attachments? The “backfire effect,” described by Nyhan and Reifler (Polit Behav 32(2):303–330. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11109-010-9112-2, 2010), says no: […]

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  • Facebook Pays Teens to Install VPN That Spies on Them | TechCrunch

    January 31, 2019

    Desperate for data on its competitors, Facebook  has been secretly paying people to install a “Facebook Research” VPN that lets the company suck in all of a user’s phone and web activity, […]

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  • Mark Zuckerberg’s New Year’s Challenge Shows Facebook Still Doesn’t Get It | Slate

    January 16, 2019

    Mark Zuckerberg thinks Facebook users are stupid. At least that’s what I’ve concluded from reading a post on his new year’s “challenge,” in which he resolves to “host a series of […]

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  • In France, School Lessons Ask: Which Twitter Post Should You Trust? | The New York Times

    December 14, 2018

    VAULX-EN-VELIN, France — A group of teenagers recently swarmed into a room at CollĂšge Henri Barbusse near Lyon, France, for a class typically dedicated to learning Spanish. But on that […]

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  • Facebook Allegedly Offered Advertisers Special Access to Users Data and Activities, According to Documents Released by British Lawmakers | The Washington Post

    December 5, 2018

    A key British lawmaker alleged Wednesday that Facebook maintained “whitelisting agreements” that gave select companies preferential access to valuable user data, echoing a key claim from an app developer that […]

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