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THE NEUROSCIENCE OF MISINFORMATION: How the Brain Processes Fake News
🧠 The Neuroscience of Misinformation
We live in an age where truth competes with speed.
Information arrives before verification, and the brain — wired to react faster than it reflects — becomes vulnerable to what feels true, not necessarily to what is true.
Misinformation doesn’t spread because people are naive.
It spreads because the human brain is efficient.
Marcela Emilia Silva do Valle Pereira Ma Emilia
Nov 129 min read
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