Sentence examples for believing false information from inspiring English sources

But the latest term of art, like its predecessors, boiled down to the same thing -- tricking an adversary into believing false information by persuading it that a source, actually under U.S. control, was selling America's secrets".

She makes Luz's disorientation, her susceptibility to believing false information, relatable.

If the stories vary widely, voters may not know what to believe or may believe false information.

Among others: "the illusory truth effect" – repetition increases belief; "the confirmation bias" – we seek out information that confirms our pre-existing beliefs; "the continuous influence effect" – the tendency to believe false information even after it has been corrected and "the bias blind spot' – the tendency to see yourself as less biased than other people.

Some Democrats are quite willing to believe false information about Republican politicians.

Last year, a study from the University of Maryland found that Fox News viewers were more likely to believe false information about politics.

ORIGINAL POST: Fox News viewers are much more likely than others to believe false information about American politics, a new study concludes.

Perpetrators may deceive by purposely attempting to convince others to believe false information (i.e., the Pinocchio effect in humans), or by misleading them through the deliberate omission or concealment of key information that could jeopardize their interests.

The Nazis took the bait: believing the false information to be true, they diverted massive forces to Greece, enabling a successful Allied invasion of Sicily.

He believes voters will not believe the false information, said Magney.

As the MIT CSAIL paper itself states: 'even when done by reputable fact-checking organizations, debunking does little to convince those who already believe in false information'.