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Title: Moar on fake news
Post by: Hawkmoon on January 12, 2019, 04:46:10 AM
The seminal study on fake news ... was fake news.

https://nypost.com/2019/01/11/widely-cited-study-of-fake-news-retracted-by-researchers/

Not really "fake" -- just wrong. And the journal that published it took a year to decide that they should retract it. I wonder if everyone who read it and believed it has seen the retraction.