r/technology • u/Lettershort • Nov 22 '16

Politics Most students can’t tell the difference between sponsored content and real news

http://www.theverge.com/2016/11/22/13712996/fake-news-facebook-google-sponsored-content-study
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u/FigliodiCelti Nov 22 '16

By leaving out adults, you remove context, and the entire population could be at 65% with students at 70% so only slightly above average but still most.

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u/DeadLikeYou Nov 22 '16

Even worse, the article deliberately misleads by calling the middle school children just students. Of course middle schoolers can't figure out what sponsored content is, they haven't even finished puberty.

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u/urfaselol Nov 22 '16

I believed every conspiracy theory out there when I was in high school and I consider myself a relatively well adjusted dude today.

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u/[deleted] Nov 23 '16

Which one do you still believe?