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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years ago

Deactivating Facebook for just a few weeks reduces belief in fake news

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Deactivating Facebook for just a few weeks reduces belief in fake news

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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years ago

The largest study ever carried out on social media deactivation has found that disconnecting lowers users political participation and also their propensity to believe misinformation

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Right. I’m still used to the parent company being named Facebook.

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