
BehaviorDecember 1, 2020
Information Overload Helps Fake News Spread, and Social Media Knows It
Understanding how algorithm manipulators exploit our cognitive vulnerabilities empowers us to fight back
Thomas Hills is a professor of psychology and director of the Behavioral and Data Science master’s program at the University of Warwick in England. His research addresses the evolution of mind and information.
Information Overload Helps Fake News Spread, and Social Media Knows It
Understanding how algorithm manipulators exploit our cognitive vulnerabilities empowers us to fight back