How Disinformation Hacks Your Brain



Three years ago, Edgar Welch sent a text message to a friend announcing he was “Raiding a pedo ring, possibly sacraficing [sic] the lives of a few for the lives of many.” Two days later, he drove 350 miles to a Washington, D.C., pizza parlor called Comet Ping Pong and entered with a .

from https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/how-disinformation-hacks-your-brain/
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