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THE GLOBE AND MAIL | How do our brains fall for disinformation?
Published: 15 October 2019
Part of the reason people fall for false content lies in the way our brains take in information, says neurologist Lesley Fellows, a professor at º«¹úÂãÎè who has studied how the brain makes political decisions. Our brains are constantly and heavily filtering the world around us through a framework of biases and stereotypes created through our experiences. It’s a general feature of the brain. It can’t possibly cope in fact with all the information out there, so we use our prior experience to filter the information in.