What's behind that? Cognitive-affective biases. Humans are easy to manipulate for anyone who understand how to use them.
There is so much noise now that the signal is difficult to detect.
PBS NewsHour | PBS
The very real consequences of fake news stories and why your brain can’t ignore them
Nsikan Akpan
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Given that Dean Baker has demolished hundreds of articles in the Washington Post over the last few years, you have to wonder whose news is the more "fake": respectable broadsheet "news papers" like WaPo, or the shadier news outlets mentioned in Nsikan Akpan's article.
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