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We often fall for fake news because we succumb to irrational and emotional impulses, especially when in an era when people don’t have time to read anything but headlines. A 2016 Pew poll found that almost 25 percent of Americans have shared a fictitious news story and an MIT study has discovered that people tend to be fooled by false news a fifth of the time, according to Time magazine.
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