You Are Not So Smart
332 - Concordance Over Truth Bias (rebroadcast)
February 2, 20261h 8m · 10,718 words
Show notes
In this episode, we sit down with three disinformation researchers whose new paper found something surprising about both our resistance and our susceptibility to both true news we wish was fake and fake news we wish was true. Our guests are three of the scientists exploring a newly named cognitive distortion, one that every human being is prone to exhibiting, one that is so common and so easily provoked that nefarious actors depend on it when distributing…
Highlighted moments
participants still rated outlandishly fake concordant headlines as more likely to be true and to be more likely to share them than real headlines that were discordant with their prior views.
“The more you consume only one perspective or one silo of information, the more you think that you are more objective because you're only seeing that one side.”
“it was robust across low, medium, and high education levels. We found it persisted even amongst people with advanced degrees.”
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