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Deactivating Facebook for just a few weeks reduces belief in fake news

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Deactivating Facebook for just a few weeks reduces belief in fake news

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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

The largest study ever carried out on social media deactivation has found that disconnecting lowers users political participation and also their propensity to believe misinformation

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My mom was permabanned from Facebook in 2020 for constantly posting anti-vax nonsense so she just went to places like Gab and Parlor. 😑

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