Readers of The Jerusalem Post have their say.
“Conformity and social pressure are key motivators of the spread of fake news,” said lead researcher assistant Prof. of decision sciences Matthew Asher Lawson
"Just asking people whether they want to share things makes them more likely to believe headlines they wouldn't otherwise have believed" - Dr. David Rand, a professor at MIT and co-author of the study
Iranian pro-regime media are afraid that the regime will be blamed, so they have deployed a number of theories about what happened in order to distract attention from the events.
The forged "artifact" was discovered earlier this week after a foreign researcher left it behind at the excavation site last summer.
How can the Jewish state prevent its former intelligence agents from using their skills in the private sector in violation of human rights and democratic elections?
Posts on the social media site Reddit with news articles fact-checked as true got more engagement, positive reactions than fake news, but the opposite was true on Twitter.
TikToker Aery Yormany, a modern-day Nostradamus, has made bold and outlandish predictions about the future, and an alien invasion may be among the tamer ones.
Readers of The Jerusalem Post have their say.
Israeli disinformation watchdog claims it found a network of 80 fake foreign Twitter accounts encouraging people to commit illegal acts as part of judicial reform protests.
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![Fake news [Illustrative]](https://images.jpost.com/image/upload/q_auto/c_fill,g_faces:center,h_194,w_290/434854 "Americans tend to share fake news to fit in socially, French study reports")
