A study into false memories highlights the risks of “fake news” spreading via social media.
Volunteers were shown fabricated news reports in the week before Ireland’s 2018 abortion law referendum.
Nearly half of them subsequently claimed to have had prior memories of at least one of the made-up events detailed.
And many failed to question their false recollections even after being told the articles they had read might be fake.
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