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  2. Aaron Kay
  3. Mark Landau

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The term “fake news” is increasingly used to discredit information from reputable news organizations. This tactic, of framing the news as biased and dishonest rather than just incompetent, has proven unusually successful at sowing distrust. We test the possibility that claims of fake news (compared to other means of discrediting the media) are appealing because they are consistent with the human n…

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