Psychologists have also found that if we hear something and understand it, we will believe it and remember it. It does not matter whether that information is true or not. In a meta-analysis that used results from thirty-two studies with 6,500 participants, academics found that even when falsehoods are corrected, it does not eliminate misinformation. We just also retain the correction. The scientists also found that corrections were less effective when they came from a different source than the one that had spouted the lies to begin with. Once we’ve read one of these posts, then, we believe it
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