Why People Share Fake News

People believe accuracy matters, but their behavior shows the opposite

Erman Misirlisoy, PhD
GEN
Published in
6 min readFeb 14, 2022

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Misinformation has been around throughout human history, but with the expanding influence of social networks, it’s spreading faster and wider than ever before. Although there’s plenty of discussion around the urgency of mitigating this problem, we don’t seem to be nearing any workable solution.

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Erman Misirlisoy, PhD
GEN
Writer for

Research Leader (Ex-Instagram / Chief Scientist at multiple startups). Author of the User Insight Newsletter: https://userinsight.substack.com/