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This is actually an interesting case study of who is spreading and consuming fake news.

This fake news reached the top of reddit and trended on Twitter. Both are dominated by users who think of themselves as smarter than the fake news consuming boomers on Facebook.

In my country it was reported by both the tabloids and mainstream media. Only the publicly owned Danmarks Radio (Danish BBC) didn't spread this fake news.



It also made it to the top of Hacker News multiple times, a site much worse than Reddit in its users having inflated measures of their group's intelligence.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30241635

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30207734

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30234026

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30234444




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