Many voters are willing to accept misinformation from political leaders, even when they know it’s factually inaccurate, and recognize when it’s not based on objective evidence. Yet they still respond positively, if they believe these inaccurate statements evoke a deeper, more important “truth.”
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The Conversation
Voters’ ‘moral flexibility’ helps them defend politicians’ misinformation − if they believe the inaccurate info speaks to a larger truth
In a series of surveys, researchers studied when and why voters put up with inaccurate statements from their leaders.
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Liberals generally associated censorship with misinformation, assuming it signaled that the information was harmful or false. Conservatives, in contrast, viewed censorship as evidence of valuable information being suppressed by powerful entities.
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PsyPost
Forbidden knowledge claims polarize beliefs and critical thinking across political lines
Claims of censorship or "forbidden knowledge" polarize perceptions and critical thinking based on political ideology, with conservatives finding such claims more credible and liberals associating censorship with misinformation.
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Misinformation/disinformation leads to US couples’ divorces, breakups: Online misinformation/disinformation, conspiracy theory groups and their former partners’ rabbit-holing behaviors caused insurmountable rifts in their relationships, ultimately causing their divorces or breakups. 👫💔🌀📱📰
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The more tech savvy you are, and if you are a millennial or are more educated, the more digital concerns you have over privacy 🔒, misinformation 📰, and work-life balance ⚖️ in the digital age, finds a new study of nearly 50,000 people in 30 countries.
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Taylor & Francis Newsroom
Tech savvy users have most digital concerns
Digital concerns around privacy, online misinformation, and work-life boundaries are highest among highly educated, Western European millennials, finds a new study from researchers at UCL and the University of British Columbia. The research, published in Information…