Precisely two years after the election of President Donald Trump—a contest stained by deliberately inaccurate information that was shared and weaponized on social media—America has not yet come to grips with the issue of fake news. How it spreads is a central issue, but an even more basic question is who believes it, and why?
New research provides at least a partial answer, identifying three specific groups of people who are particularly susceptible to phony stories, and offering a likely reason why. CONT.
Tom Jacobs, Pacific Standard