Fake news is fooling more conservatives than liberals. Why?

Posted on AllSides June 11th, 2020
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“Doctors need three qualifications: to be able to lie and not get caught; to pretend to be honest; and to cause death without guilt.”

So wrote Jean Froissart, a diarist of the Middle Ages, after an outbreak of bubonic plague in the 14th century. Fake news then meant rumours that the plague could be cured by sitting in a sewer, eating decade-old treacle or ingesting arsenic.

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https://www.economist.com/international/2020/06/03/fake-news-is-fooling-more-conservatives-than-liberals-why

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