Americans who believe in fake news about politics have an age profile over 60 and are conservative, they suffer from what psychology calls Confirmation Bias .
In summary, Confirmation Bias means that people believe what they want to believe to be true. (5) An article on a psychology blog says that people only change their minds if they are open to reflection, have an open mind to new possibilities, if they seek the truth. Everything that a person with a strong ideology does not have. (6)
While our media glides on relatively simple news, in the USA, during the Bush era, in that context of post-World Trade Center attacks. The American president released false reports of weapons of mass destruction to the UN to justify an invasion of Iraq.
When the Americans discovered that the reports were false and that all mainstream media had passed on that information without checking the veracity and resulting in millions of refugees, trillions of dollars spent in an unnecessary war and the creation of the Islamic State, the media lost much of its credibility it had. (7)
Source: Por que as pessoas acreditam em Fake News? – Culturalizando


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