User:Zzamgonzaga/Misinformation

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"According to research from the journal, Behaviour & Information Technology, the factors that lead to recognizing misinformation are the amount of education a person has and the information literacy, or media literacy, they have. This means if a person is more familiar with the content and process of how the information is researched and presented, or is better at critically evaluating information of any source, then they are more likely to identify misinformation. Increasing this literacy may not lead to improved ability to detect misinformation, as a certain level of literacy could be used to "justify belief in misinformation". In continuation, according to a research study of Facebook, New York University and Université Grenoble Alpes' researchers found that misinformation was more likely to be clicked on than factual information.

Further research reveals that content descriptors can have a varying effect in people in detecting misinformation. "