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posted by Fnord666 on Sunday March 19 2017, @06:22AM   Printer-friendly
from the hello-operator dept.

Memory is notoriously fallible, but some experts worry that a new phenomenon is emerging. "Memories are shared among groups in novel ways through sites such as Facebook and Instagram, blurring the line between individual and collective memories," says psychologist Daniel Schacter, who studies memory at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. "The development of Internet-based misinformation, such as recently well-publicized fake news sites, has the potential to distort individual and collective memories in disturbing ways."

How Facebook, Fake News and Friends Are Warping Your Memory


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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 19 2017, @02:13PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 19 2017, @02:13PM (#481137)

    warped the US president electn

    Oh please. The two-faced uniparty of the USA put forth a choice between two rotten eggs, and you're mad at news agencies/other people/someone other than the responsible individuals that a rotten egg was elected as US president.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 20 2017, @08:09PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 20 2017, @08:09PM (#481731)

    Just what tools do you think they used to do this with? Yes, it was the likes of Facebook and Google riding right along with CNN, Breitbart, NBC and even PBS decided to draw in feces on their reputations.