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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 months ago

Deactivating Facebook for just a few weeks reduces belief in fake news

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Deactivating Facebook for just a few weeks reduces belief in fake news

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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 months ago

The largest study ever carried out on social media deactivation has found that disconnecting lowers users political participation and also their propensity to believe misinformation

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Given how FB’s algorithm stacks their feed and hides real information, that’s not surprising.

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