Everyone is cognitively susceptible to misinformation, not just outliers

Evidence

A common response to such events is to dismiss them as the actions of single individuals. Outliers. Most people aren’t fooled by fake news. But is this really the case? How confident are you that your vote wasn’t influenced by micro-targeted misinformation? How much of what we read on social media is false or if not plain false, designed to make us think or feel a certain way? Whitty and Welch are not alone. The truth is that at a basic cognitive level we are all susceptible to misinformation. — Sander van der Linden, Foolproof, 6

Categorization

• QUESTION: The claim that everyone is susceptible at a basic cognitive level is stated as a thesis to be proven; worth tracking whether the book delivers genuine evidence for the universality of susceptibility or slides into rhetorical framing.
• XREF: connects to: Misinformation hijacks cognitive machinery and resists correction like a virus — Sander van der Linden, Foolproof: Why Misinformation Infects…, 22; Time pressure makes everyone rely on intuition and mistake fluency for truth — Sander van der Linden, Foolproof: Why Misinformation Infects…, 76; People resist updating beliefs even at the cost of accuracy (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Misinformation hijacks cognitive machinery and resists correction like a virus #expands (0.85) — Sander van der Linden, Foolproof, 22
• Time pressure makes everyone rely on intuition and mistake fluency for truth #exemplifies (0.80) — Sander van der Linden, Foolproof, 76
• People resist updating beliefs even at the cost of accuracy #exemplifies (0.75)
• Human minds carry epistemic-vigilance biases against being duped #complicates (0.75)