From Deception to Inception: Social Media and the Changing Function of Fake News (Lessons from Egypt 2013)

From Deception to Inception: Social Media and the Changing Function of Fake News (Lessons from Egypt 2013)

From Deception to Inception: Social Media and the Changing Function of Fake News (Lessons from Egypt 2013)
Hesham Shafick Article The continued political influence of fake news despite the unprecedented accessibility of corrective information raises a pressing question: How can fake news impact publics which recognize its inveracity? Building on and developing Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky’s theory of “cognitive endowments,” this article unpacks the mechanisms by which news endows hypotheses, models, references, and relations that impact public assumptions of what might possibly be true,…