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Are you susceptible to misinformation?

A little late to the party, but 19/20 for me.

I got 100% fake news detection.

It took me a while to find the one I got wrong (you can just keep submitting different options). It was the one about 109 US counties becoming majority non-white. I originally said Fake, but it was Real (apparently).

But, I think the study was fake. 😎
 
Amity Island said:
I'm just making a small but important point, that whilst misinformation is being brought to the forefront, there are much more important issues that never get dealt with. There are endless examples of where propaganda is widespread but is unchallenged. There are many facts that people are never told, when stories and information are presented in only one light, position, aim or agenda. Basically, what I am saying is, people are being deceived, misled, miseducated en-mass every day and none of this gets flagged or taken down as misinformation.

"Cook discovered Australia" (untrue)

No he wasn't responsible for discovering Australia, people had been living there for thousands of years before he arrived.

"Cook was a great explorer" (one side of the story)

Perhaps, but he also spread western diseases into other counties, treated indigenous people appallingly.

www.dailymail.co.uk

Captain Cook shot an Aborigine before he even set foot on Australia

Bestselling author Peter FitzSimons was stunned while researching a biography of Captain James Cook to learn the legendary navigator had shot an indigenous warrior.
www.dailymail.co.uk www.dailymail.co.uk
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'Cook discovered Australia'. That's surely true for Capn. Cook personally ?
 
Saw this on Twitter. Thought it to be quite apropos:

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