Monday, March 26, 2018

Real News Tops Fake News

When people who see a fake news story are told that the story they've read is plainly wrong, they reject the fake news story.

If you're a conservative and you're told that a fake story flattering to conservatives was actually fabricated, you'll likely respond by conceding that the story is fake.

We recruited people to take a survey and randomly assigned them to read a fake news story.

For every fake story, the average liberal, moderate, and conservative responded to the factual correction by rejecting the fake news.

Of course, in some cases liberals were less enthusiastic about rejecting fake news stories that favored their side's interest.

While people are content to concede that a fake story is indeed fake, they are far less willing to part with the political principles they hold dear.

If a pro-Clinton fake news story had circulated during the 2016 election, and you came to learn that it was fake, would you accept the facts? We think you would.

https://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/study-real-news-tops-fake-news-yes-real-news 

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