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
(Score: 2) by Bot on Sunday March 19 2017, @12:57PM (1 child)
what's more dangerous is inability to tell truth from lies because your input feed has been filtered.
This article is just fodder for furthering censorship of the internet.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 19 2017, @06:10PM
> what's more dangerous is inability to tell truth from lies because your input feed has been filtered.
That is literally the article's very thesis.
You could not be stronger agreement.