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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: 2, Insightful) by RoxTeddy on Sunday March 19 2017, @04:09PM (1 child)

    by RoxTeddy (6500) on Sunday March 19 2017, @04:09PM (#481184)

    I ignore commentary, seek out the facts. Social media is all propaganda. If you don't think so, think again.

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  • (Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 19 2017, @10:47PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 19 2017, @10:47PM (#481281)

    > I ignore commentary, seek out the facts.

    Facts without context are just as much tools of propaganda as commentary.
    And if you think you are educated enough to know the context of even just 1% of the facts in the world, in you are delusional.