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Labels Are the New Hot Thing
Labels are the new hot thing. Does slapping a label on something actually help to stop the spread of misinformation? To find out, we called up david rand he's a professor at m i t who studies how good people are at detecting real news and fake news. One study that David did found that when you asked people to tell if a headline is fake or not, they'll get it right most of the time. It could be that we're not thinking about whether it's true or false, but rather how many likes we might get.