Those who study misinformation often ask “why do people believe false things?”.
Methodologically speaking, this is the wrong question. “The modern panic about “misinformation” and “post-truth” is historically illiterate.
There never was a “truth” era.
False, biased narratives are the norm throughout human history.
The truth is not the default it is an exceptional, fragile, improbable achievement” 
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