{"id":11768,"date":"2025-04-25T11:59:56","date_gmt":"2025-04-25T11:59:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/youthdemocracycohort.com\/?post_type=glossary&#038;p=11768"},"modified":"2025-06-06T13:57:42","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T13:57:42","slug":"fake-news","status":"publish","type":"glossary","link":"https:\/\/youthdemocracycohort.com\/glossary\/fake-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Fake News"},"content":{"rendered":"<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-wide\">\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Definition:<\/strong> <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>False or misleading content presented as legitimate news, spread intentionally or unintentionally.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Did you know?<\/strong> <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a class=\"glossaryLink\"  aria-describedby=\"tt\"  data-cmtooltip=\"&lt;div class=glossaryItemBody&gt;False or misleading content presented as legitimate news, spread intentionally or unintentionally.&lt;\/div&gt;\"  href=\"https:\/\/youthdemocracycohort.com\/glossary\/fake-news\/\"  data-mobile-support=\"0\"  data-gt-translate-attributes='[{\"attribute\":\"data-cmtooltip\", \"format\":\"html\"}]' tabindex='0' role='link'>Fake news<\/a> stories<\/strong> are more likely to <strong>evoke strong emotions<\/strong> like fear and disgust, which makes people share them more quickly. A study published in Science Advances found <strong>emotional content boosts the spread of <a class=\"glossaryLink\"  aria-describedby=\"tt\"  data-cmtooltip=\"&lt;div class=glossaryItemBody&gt;False or inaccurate information shared without intent to deceive.&lt;\/div&gt;\"  href=\"https:\/\/youthdemocracycohort.com\/glossary\/misinformation\/\"  data-mobile-support=\"0\"  data-gt-translate-attributes='[{\"attribute\":\"data-cmtooltip\", \"format\":\"html\"}]' tabindex='0' role='link'>misinformation<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><em> Science Advances, 2019<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>False or misleading content presented as legitimate news, spread intentionally or unintentionally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"glossary-categories":[],"glossary-tags":[],"class_list":["post-11768","glossary","type-glossary","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/youthdemocracycohort.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary\/11768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/youthdemocracycohort.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/youthdemocracycohort.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/glossary"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youthdemocracycohort.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/youthdemocracycohort.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary\/11768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12838,"href":"https:\/\/youthdemocracycohort.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary\/11768\/revisions\/12838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/youthdemocracycohort.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"glossary-categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youthdemocracycohort.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary-categories?post=11768"},{"taxonomy":"glossary-tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youthdemocracycohort.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary-tags?post=11768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}