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Cauzele manipulării informațiilor de la nivel individului
The causes of information manipulation at individual level

Author(s): Cristian Ilie
Subject(s): Security and defense, Individual Psychology
Published by: INFOSFERA - Revista de studii de securitate si Informații pentru Apărare
Keywords: modern society; information; bias; vulnerability; conspiracy theory; information manipulation; deception; fake news;

Summary/Abstract: Modern society is under constant information assault which determines its reactions, approaches, and behaviors. Taking advantage of human predisposition, encrypted on the complexity of the social world, the producers of information make use of complex mechanisms to inoculate desirable meanings. The absence of cognitive discernment criteria and the tendency to assume the information that confirms our pre-existing hypothesis put us in dependence to cognitive biases and more and more to fake news.

  • Issue Year: XII/2020
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 64-70
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: Romanian