“Misinformation and biases infect social media, both intentionally and accidentally.” By Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia and Filippo Menczer, explain the concept and creation of fake news. fake news and misinformation, spread easily now with the discovery of the 3 biases. These 3 biases are what make social media vulnerable. These biases consist of the biases in the brain, bias in society, and the bias in the machine. The bias in the brain basically talks about how too much information can lead to overstimulation, and the way we consume media emotionally. The bias in society are your peers who unintentionally or intentionally share and give out misinformation. And lastly the bias in the machine is based on what others are seeing and reading. In simple terms trending.
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In my opinion we need to train and confine our brain into learning credibility. Because many of us if not all fall victim to fake news. For example, in politics if a certain party, is not fond of a politician they’ll create articles. Many times, these articles, have false statements, and lack evidence. But many of us believe in them, we believe they are credible sources. And that’s another growing problem, the lack of there being credible sources.
