Everyone is pretty bad at reading, though.Link in BioA team of researchers led by Penn State have found that American conservatives on Facebook are substantially more likely to share article links containing false information — without even reading them. Liberals aren’t off the hook, though; Facebook users overall were astonishingly bad at vetting information before spreading it online. “The closer the political alignment of the content to the user — both liberal and conservative — the more it was shared without clicks,” study author and media effects researcher S. Shyam Sundar said in…
