Leo Anthony Celi is the principal research scientist and clinical research director of the MIT Laboratory of Computational Physiology (LCP), where he uses data routinely collected in intensive care units to support research and eliminate health care bias.
As a social media user, you can be eager to share content. You can also try to judge whether it is true or not. But for many people it is difficult to prioritise both these things at once. That’s the conclusion of a new experiment led by MIT scholars, which finds that even considering whether
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Asking people about their intent to share social media content makes them worse at judging the veracity of news headlines, according to an MIT-led study.
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