Reasonable People #47: Mainstream stories have the lion's share of the impact on people's attitudes to the covid vaccine, shows analysis of massive dataset from Facebook
Something more concerning, to me at least, than individual fake news stories like the ones studied, is the rise of media channels which incorporate these into their ongoing narrative - I'm thinking in particular of the Joe Rogan and Russell Brand podcasts, though GB News may well fit into a similar category (I don't know, I've avoided it as much as possible). I see very little sharing of fake news stories on social media, but I do have conversations with loved and respected friends who appear to me to have been somewhat "radicalised" by their podcast choices.
Something more concerning, to me at least, than individual fake news stories like the ones studied, is the rise of media channels which incorporate these into their ongoing narrative - I'm thinking in particular of the Joe Rogan and Russell Brand podcasts, though GB News may well fit into a similar category (I don't know, I've avoided it as much as possible). I see very little sharing of fake news stories on social media, but I do have conversations with loved and respected friends who appear to me to have been somewhat "radicalised" by their podcast choices.