Mendacity in the style of former president Donald Trump and the uncritical repetition of such blatant lies can measurably chip away at our ability to assess the plausibility of other, unrelated news stories.
The team's results deal primarily with people's beliefs rather than their ability to detect fake news... But the researchers also looked at how increases in perceptions of believability influenced people's overall view of the truth.
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