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- Last week I wrote about how conspiracy theories spread so much faster on Facebook than debunkings of those same theories. A few commenters chimed in to say that of course this was true, the conspiracy theories had evolved into an almost-perfect form for exploiting cognitive biases and the pressures of social media. Debunkings and true beliefs couldn’t copy that process, so they were losing out.
This sounded like a challenge, so here you go....
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johnnyFive · 2346 days ago · link ·
There was actually a post on the SlateStarCodex subreddit linking to /r/forwardsfromgrandma where someone had posted the Obama one without realizing it was satire.