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Pluralistic Ignorance and Fake News: The Election

Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/17/technology/social-medias-globe-shaking-power.html One thing we talked about in class with our discussion of networks, specifically in chapter 19, was pluralistic ignorance. The example we used was in thinking about the government – many people believe that the government is really liked and that the majority of people like the government, though privately, many individuals are opposed to the government. […]

How Fake News Goes Viral

This article explores the ways in which information spreads across networks through our digital world. Specifically, a false tweet about paid protestors being bussed to demonstrations against Donald Trump eventually reached over thousands of Americans. The situation was misinterpreted by Eric Tucker, who tweeted a picture of a coach bus in Texas, informing his 40 […]

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