12-02-2017 07:00 via theguardian.com

How our brains perceive the truth | Daniel Glaser

The parliamentary inquiry into ‘fake news’ could be missing the point because there’s always a disconnect between ‘truth’ and how we see itThe rise of “untruths”, fabrications and propaganda has led to a parliamentary inquiry into the “growing phenomenon of fake news”.Yet the disconnect between the “truth” and how we see and read it has always been there. When we read something, we think it’s a process of “information
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