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Jay Van Bavel, PhD
@jayvanbavel.bsky.social
Professor of Psychology at NYU (jayvanbavel.com) | Author of The Power of Us Book (powerofus.online) | Director of Social Identity & Morality Lab | trying to write a new book about collective decisions
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Our new paper takes you Inside the funhouse mirror factory and explains how social media distorts perceptions of norms 0.1 % of users share 80% of fake news! A tiny proportion of bad actors cause most of the problems and distort the social norms. sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
That's a horrifying ratio, but it illuminates how easily this problem could moderated if done in earnest.
I'm shocked, I tell you. Shocked!
Small typo? - "explains who" -> "explains how" (In Introduction, para 3.)
I was surprised to learn that just 1% of users *consume* 74% of fake news!
JV
Jay Van Bavel, PhD
@jayvanbavel.bsky.social
Professor of Psychology at NYU (jayvanbavel.com) | Author of The Power of Us Book (powerofus.online) | Director of Social Identity & Morality Lab | trying to write a new book about collective decisions
3.2k followers461 following607 posts