WaPo/ABC poll????? hahahahahahahahaha...
more fake news:
11 Jan: Widely cited study of fake news retracted by researchers
By Lilly Dancyger, Rolling Stone
Last year, a study was published in the Journal of Human Behavior, explaining why fake news goes viral on social media...
The study sought to determine the role of short attention spans and information overload in the spread of fake news...
Because of an error in processing their findings, their results showed that the simplified model was able to reproduce the real-life numbers, determining that people spread fake news because of their short attention spans and not necessarily, for example, because of foreign bots promoting particular stories...
They alerted the journal right away, and the journal deliberated for almost a year whether to issue a correction or a retraction, before finally deciding on Monday to retract the article...
https://nypost.com/2019/01/11/widely-cited-study-of-fake-news-retracted-by-researchers/