Why Do People Spread Misinformation Online?

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Sujet : Why Do People Spread Misinformation Online?
De : ldo (at) *nospam* nz.invalid (Lawrence D'Oliveiro)
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Date : 02. Dec 2024, 22:37:36
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Report on a study
<https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/12/people-will-share-misinformation-that-sparks-moral-outrage/>
into why people are more likely to pass on false reports and rumours
rather than factual ones.

Of course, given how politically-charged the issue of what is “lies”
and “truth” can be, they chose to base the credibility (or not) of
news sources, not on their own judgement, but on a more objective
measure, of how often reports from those sources were fact-checked as
false.

What they found was that, often, the people spreading the false
stories knew they were false, but passed them on anyway, on the basis
of the degree of moral outrage they provoked. In other words, they
wanted to push people’s buttons. (I suppose this is the definition of
“populism”.)

And some politicians doing this are not shy about admitting as much:

    Brady pointed to an example from the recent campaign, when a
    reporter pushed J.D. Vance about false claims regarding immigrants
    eating pets. “When the reporter pushed him, he implied that yes,
    it was fabrication, but it was outrageous and spoke to the issues
    his constituents were mad about,” Brady says. These experiments
    show that this kind of dishonesty is not exclusive to politicians
    running for office—people do this on social media all the time.

Wasn’t it Mark Twain who said that “a lie can spread halfway around
the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes”?

Date Sujet#  Auteur
2 Dec 24 * Why Do People Spread Misinformation Online?30Lawrence D'Oliveiro
4 Dec 24 +* Re: Why Do People Spread Misinformation Online?28Oregonian Haruspex
4 Dec 24 i`* Re: Why Do People Spread Misinformation Online?27Lawrence D'Oliveiro
5 Dec 24 i `* Re: Why Do People Spread Misinformation Online?26Oregonian Haruspex
5 Dec 24 i  +* Re: Why Do People Spread Misinformation Online?8Lawrence D'Oliveiro
5 Dec 24 i  i`* Re: Why Do People Spread Misinformation Online?7Oregonian Haruspex
5 Dec 24 i  i +* Re: Why Do People Spread Misinformation Online?4Lawrence D'Oliveiro
5 Dec 24 i  i i`* Re: Why Do People Spread Misinformation Online?3Oregonian Haruspex
5 Dec 24 i  i i +- Re: Why Do People Spread Misinformation Online?1Lawrence D'Oliveiro
5 Dec 24 i  i i `- Re: Why Do People Spread Misinformation Online?1yeti
14 Dec 24 i  i `* Re: Why Do People Spread Misinformation Online?2Scott Dorsey
15 Dec 24 i  i  `- Re: Why Do People Spread Misinformation Online?1D
8 Dec 24 i  `* Re: Why Do People Spread Misinformation Online?17Jim Jackson
8 Dec 24 i   +* Re: Why Do People Spread Misinformation Online?3Lawrence D'Oliveiro
8 Dec 24 i   i`* Re: Why Do People Spread Misinformation Online?2Jim Jackson
9 Dec 24 i   i `- Re: Why Do People Spread Misinformation Online?1Lawrence D'Oliveiro
9 Dec 24 i   `* Re: Why Do People Spread Misinformation Online?13Anonymous
9 Dec 24 i    `* Re: Why Do People Spread Misinformation Online?12Jim Jackson
9 Dec 24 i     +* Re: Why Do People Spread Misinformation Online?5yeti
10 Dec 24 i     i+* Re: Why Do People Spread Misinformation Online?2Mike Spencer
10 Dec 24 i     ii`- Re: Why Do People Spread Misinformation Online?1yeti
10 Dec 24 i     i`* Re: Why Do People Spread Misinformation Online?2Jim Jackson
10 Dec 24 i     i `- Re: Why Do People Spread Misinformation Online?1yeti
10 Dec 24 i     `* Re: Why Do People Spread Misinformation Online?6Anonymous
10 Dec 24 i      +* Re: Why Do People Spread Misinformation Online?3Jim Jackson
10 Dec 24 i      i+- Re: Why Do People Spread Misinformation Online?1Lawrence D'Oliveiro
11 Dec 24 i      i`- Re: Why Do People Spread Misinformation Online?1Anonymous
14 Dec 24 i      `* Re: Why Do People Spread Misinformation Online?2Scott Dorsey
15 Dec22:48 i       `- Re: Why Do People Spread Misinformation Online?1Jim Jackson
15 Dec22:34 `- Re: Why Do People Spread Misinformation Online?1World Knight

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