Why We’re Susceptible to Fake News, and What We Can Do About It
The key to people’s accepting fake news as true, despite evidence to the contrary, is a phenomenon known as confirmation bias, or the tendency for people to seek and accept information that confirms their existing beliefs while rejecting or ignoring that which contradicts those beliefs.
https://neurosciencenews.com/conspiracy-susceptibility-9693/
helps explain why Capetonians prefer the Conspiracy theories around our drought
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