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don’t fool yourself! people knowingly buy lies and fake news because they want to believe they will eventually come true, study finds
- People buy fake news because they want to believe it’s true, according to a new study
- Lies that appear to come true are also more forgivable with the public
- these included firms stretching the truth in advertising or job seekers lying on cvs
- the study from the london business school involved six experiments on more than 3,600 people
by sam tonkin for mailonline
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