Information Overload Helps Fake News Spread, and Social Media Knows It
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Information Overload Helps Fake News Spread, and Social Media Knows It
Destructive cherry-picking spreads fear and pessimism, and over the past 20 years, it’s been steadily on the rise.25 In political media, this can have especially dangerous consequences. Geographic sorting means many people barely spend time with anyone on the other political side, so the only information they have on what those people are like come
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