The science of mob thinking
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Experts also suggest President Trump played a key role in weaponizing human tendencies to distrust people who look or act different.The way people determine what's true and what's false, especially online, relies heavily on people trusting sources of information over substance, according to experts.Racial identity is often a key heuristic that helps people interpret facts, says Britt Paris, an assistant professor of library and information science at Rutgers University.Trump has became an important heuristic and authoritative source of information for huge swaths of the population, Ditto said.The rapid digitization of news, expedited by the pandemic, means more people are relying less on personally fact-checking information, and more on using heuristics to determine what's true or false.
As said here by Sara Fischer, Alison Snyder