Why do users still be fooled by fake Internet content?

Deceptive content has existed since the early days of the advent of information technology, and many users are still deceived by it.

The Internet is a dark and fraught space of inaccurate information sources. Sometimes it seems like every day a new kind of dark or harmful content is added to its asset list.
 Toxic conspiracy theories,
Deep Fiction, fake news outlets and deceptive content all fall into the black assets of the Internet.Hoax content has existed in the Internet world for many years.
Simply put, this type of content is the same messages and emails that sending in a chain to users, and generally try to create fear in their minds.

 The content continues to grow today with the advent of social networking and even more deceptive users.

As mentioned, there are all kinds of malicious content on the internet. In the current situation, fake news campaigns are targeted at specific types of media.

Of course,

deceptive content has more potential negative impacts than any such style of fake news. Content that is likely to be encountered by all users of the IT world at least once.

Think of them as messages that encourage (and even force) you to resend the message.

The message warns that bad things will happen to a person if they are not sending to several contacts.

 Despite the simplicity of such messages, we can still see some of them on the Internet.

The latest examples of deceptive content use the social networking channel for distribution. In one of the recent cases, an image was published and distributed on Instagram that even some Western celebrities contributed to it.

In this image, users are warned that imminent changes will occur on Instagram. The text reads: “Following a change in Instagram’s privacy policies,

all user images and private messages will be make available to the company and Instagram may use them in court proceedings against him.”

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The following image offers the user to send a message and alert to their audience.

If you send a message to a certain audience, Instagram will no longer be able to access user content!

The Momo Challenge was another phenomenon that recently filled the social media space.

It had a simpler design campaign, and the user with a little Google search found the claims to be false.

Of course, these simple and ridiculous campaigns were also rapidly gaining popularity.

Whitney Phillips, a professor at Syracuse University, says the distribution of deceptive content has nothing to do with the naivety or credulity of users.

He researches the subject of false information and its widespread distribution on the Internet.

In his view,

the odd way users process information and conclude it has a direct impact on the fast and intense distribution of deceptive content.

Philips believes that as soon as new information is encounter, people do not rationalize it.

 In contrast,

people will make quick decisions about how new information relates to their current outlook on the world.

The link between the deceptive content and the current mentality of the user leads to its belief

The description given by Philips of deceptive content proximity to subjective beliefs makes their verification more natural.

If the story in a deceptive image or text resembles a coherent narrative close to the beliefs of a large crowd of people, content distributors have achieved their goal.

He explains his story in relation to the story we mentioned at the beginning of the article,

which also captured a lot of Instagram celebrity. Philips says about the way this particular content works:

If you’re a celebrity, you’re definitely more susceptible to disclosing your private information.You know there is a significant market for your personal information that is not available to ordinary users. As a result, such a narrative (fear of disclosure if content is not distributed) is easily disseminated among the public. Of course, disseminating the content does not necessarily mean that it is correct, but people’s beliefs and behaviors still shape it.

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When deceptive content claims that users’ personal information will be compromise, ordinary users are affecting, like celebrities.

They believe in the content and strive to distribute it. The reason for believing the claim is that there are signs of the truth in it.

We have placed our sensitive and abundant information on the internet and anyone can access it. As a result, some of the content may be used in a way that you do not like.

In addition,

you will have no control over the process of use and abuse.

Recent fraudulent content distribution is doing through the same platform that stores a large number of users’ information.

In fact,

the fear of losing information is somehow spreading through the same data storage platform. Gordon Pennycock, assistant professor of behavioral sciences at the University of Regina, Canada, writes about decision making studies on the selection and distribution of deceptive content:

The brain is tune to provide easy answers. As a result, if deceptive content is close to people’s feelings or insights, it will quickly spark in their minds. Users don’t spend much time thinking about what they see on social networks. In addition, social media is also blamed for distributing such content. These media are designed for mental conflict and fleeting pleasures. In the meantime, some pleasures come at the cost of shutting down users’ thinking.

In some cases, the user may feel that the content he or she is promoting is a little too angular.Even in such cases, their tendency to share content prevails over reason and mental logic.

In many sharing cases, the user himself points out that he has shared such controversial content for caution.Penicoke writes of such approaches:

Studies show that when users think about content sharing, accuracy is not their top priority.In fact, the nature of content sharing is generally more executive.

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Like Phenicoke, Phillips believes that the mindset and decision-making of users is the force that ensures the persistence of deceptive content on the Internet.

When content-sharing incentives are not base on facts, reality-base solutions will not be use to combat fraud.

He goes on to say that high-precision content distribution campaigns do not require precision. You just have to tell a story different from reality in order for the mind to get the dependency and connection it needs.

After that, all processes are automating.

The story we described at the beginning of the article about the deceptive content of Instagram was an example of the least possible risks.

Although such content distribution does not pose such a risk to anyone, it will nevertheless represent a process that doubles the importance of informing and preventing the distribution of deceptive content.

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