'Spotting the spin': Why disinformation works in our brains 바카라 게임 웹사이트 and how not to get duped
From Payne Hall on the campus of Vanderbilt University where she teaches to the solemn halls of the Federal Election Commission, takes her eye-opening presentation on disinformation wherever she바카라 게임 웹사이트s asked.
And the invites keep coming.
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Her 10-12 minute slide presentation, which touches on such disparate historical characters such as Moses and Franklin Roosevelt, seeks to illustrate the science of how Americans gets duped 바카라 게임 웹사이트 and how to spot the spin.
"We're seeing actors try and fool the American public,바카라 게임 웹사이트 Fazio explained during an interview on campus.
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Fake Facebook accounts double
Here's just how large of an audience:
Facebook it took down 3.2 billion fake accounts between April and September -- more than double the amount it removed in 2018.
False attacks on U.S. politicians were viewed 158 million times on the world바카라 게임 웹사이트s largest social media platform since the beginning of 2019, according to a recent report from the activist organization Avaaz.
All of the disinformation is taking a toll on consumers바카라 게임 웹사이트 sense of reality.
An last year found 47 percent of Americans said it's difficult to know whether information they see is true.
바카라 게임 웹사이트Does this feel true?바카라 게임 웹사이트
To test how much people are susceptible to disinformation, Prof. Fazio agreed to give her presentation recently to a diverse group of voters assembled by the Hearst Television National Investigative Unit with the assistance of the League of Women Voters in Louisville, Kentucky.
"Most the time we rely on this gut feeling: does this feel true?바카라 게임 웹사이트 Fazio explained to the 14 people ages 24 to 76 gathered at the studios of WLKY-TV.
When politicians, trusted individuals or political ads repeat a false or misleading claim over and over, the disinformation solidifies in the viewer, Fazio said in an interview later.
With repetition, 바카라 게임 웹사이트the statement becomes easier to process, easier to understand, and our brains kind of interpret that fluency or that ease of processing as a signal for truth. And so we think that these things are true just because they've been repeated,바카라 게임 웹사이트 Fazio explained.
바카라 게임 웹사이트We assume good intentions when we're having conversations and that's why we don't notice these errors,바카라 게임 웹사이트 she added. 바카라 게임 웹사이트Because, in general, people have this accuracy motive and they try to be accurate in what they're saying and we don't try to dupe other people. But 바카라 게임 웹사이트 these processes that develop with good norms of communication fall apart when people are actually trying to trick us.바카라 게임 웹사이트
With just two months until the first votes are cast in the 2020 primaries and caucuses, Fazio channeled an overriding sentiment among voters facing a fire hose of disinformation.
바카라 게임 웹사이트I think a lot of people are feeling kind of exhausted, sick, and just stop paying attention. There's just too much coming at them; they don't know what's true or false and so they've just kind of put their hands up and stopped paying attention. And I think that's really dangerous in a democracy where we need informed citizens to make decisions.바카라 게임 웹사이트
Can you spot the spin?
Each of the questions below may contain an error. Can you spot which ones? These examples illustrate how hard it can be to spot misinformation and disinformation.
Questions and answers provided by Vanderbilt University Assistant Professor of Psychology Lisa Fazio with contribution from the research of 바카라 게임 웹사이트Memory and the Moses Illusion: Failures to detect contradictions with stored knowledge yield negative memorial consequences바카라 게임 웹사이트 by Hayden C. Bottoms, Andrea N. Eslick, and Elizabeth J. Marsh (2010) as well as 바카라 게임 웹사이트Expertise effects in the Moses illusion: Detecting contradictions with stored knowledge바카라 게임 웹사이트 by Allison D. Cantor and Elizabeth J. Marsh (2017).
Travis Sherwin and April Chunko contributed to this report.
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