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by vergessenmir 1938 days ago
A bag of words with negative and positive sentiments is shown to a bunch students and the main takeaway is fake news can direct your behaviour?

Were the political students left or right leaning, did they have psychometric profiles of the students?

How is this effect different from priming, and like/unlike priming does it persist?

I'm no psychologist but how does this research shed any light on how 'fake news' affects us when it is starting from hard to define concepts like mis/disinformation and fake news?

If anyone can see the scientific value in this research please elaborate. I ended up having fundamental questions on the research itself rather than what it claims to have illustrated.