How Social Media Fires Fake News

A new study by Michigan State University shows that people who overuse social media are increasingly in danger of falling for false information. Researchers around Dar Meshi and Maria D. Molina found that so-called "problem users" not only consider fake news to be credible, but also interact more intensively with this content – through likes, comments or sharing the contributions. (as reported by pressetext) In the course of the study, 189 subje…