‘Belonging Is Stronger Than Facts’: The Age of Misinformation – The New York Times

‘Belonging Is Stronger Than Facts’: The Age of Misinformation (Published 2021)

Social and psychological forces are combining to make the sharing and believing of misinformation an endemic problem with no easy solution.

Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/07/world/asia/misinformation-disinformation-fake-news.html

We are in an era of endemic misinformation — and outright disinformation. Plenty of bad actors are helping the trend along. But the real drivers, some experts believe, are social and psychological forces that make people prone to sharing and believing misinformation in the first place. And those forces are on the rise.