Misunderstanding the harms of online misinformation - Nature
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This Perspective identifies common misperceptions regarding the harms of online misinformation, finding that exposure to false and inflammatory content is rare and concentrated among a small minority of people who already have extreme views.
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TLDR: You get misinformed, whoever you share it with gets misinformed and all it takes to spread this are random posts containing it.

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