Fake News Experiments in Germany: How Social Media Users React to Lies
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By GPD
Sputnik: German sociologists conducted a social experiment by launching a nationalistically oriented site called Volksbeobachter. They created several fake profiles in Facebook and started spreading fake news in order to find out how social network users would react to the messages.
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The main goal of the experiment was to demonstrate the capability of fake news to influence public sentiment.The social experiment involved publishing xenophobic posts like “Free sex for asylum-seekers is paid by the district administration!” or “A refugee has stolen a job from a German” and waiting for the response.
As a result of the test, the experts found out that their content remained unchecke...