Evaluating Information : Understanding Fake News

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Why do people fall for fake news?

• Stereotypes

  "cognitive shortcuts" lead to biased thinking - Franchesca Ramsey, MTV Series "Decoded"
• Confirmation and Disconfirmation Bias

  " We tend to be too accepting of information we want to hear and too critical of information we don’t want to hear." - Brendan Nyhan, American Political Scientist and Assistant Professor, Dartmouth
• Filter Bubbles

  “The internet is showing us what it thinks we want to see, not necessarily what we need to see” – Eli Pariser, TED Talk 2011
• Echo Chambers (Red Feed/Bue Feed)

  "... social network can create “echo chambers,” where users see posts only from like-minded friends and media sources" - Wall Street Journal
• Motivated Reasoning

  "a label for the seemingly limitless power of partisanship and prior beliefs to color and distort perceptions of the political and social world"