"We tend to believe fake news shared by distant social media contacts more than by close friends, even with trust controlled."

Interesting insight from an interesting paper by Babajide Osatuyi and Alan R. Dennis (recently published in the Decision Support Systems journal):

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0167923624001088

#misinformation #disinformation #socialmedia #trust