Breaking Busted Reveals The Secrets Of False News Headlines

Webnews outlets have delighted in ridiculous 1 april headlines for hundreds of years (the tradition could be dated back to as early as 1564), and this year will be no different.

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Webin identifying misinformation, we often focus too closely on the superficial and obvious aspects of this shiny new concept of fake news — a fake clickbait headline accompanying a fake news article of actual falsehoods.

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Weboverall, the model indicates people presented with one true and one fake headline have an 83% chance of picking the true headline when the news was positive about their political party — that ticked down just two percentage points, to 81%, when the news was unfavorable to their party.

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