
75: Fake News (with Jack Grieve)
Because Language - a podcast about linguistics, the science of language.
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The Importance of First Person Pronouns
The New York Times found that half of its reporter's articles were faked. The Washington Post then broke the story, which led to an internal investigation at the paper. When people are lying, they tend to use fewer first person pronouns like I or we. And also they tend to obfuscate more.
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