Summary
Fake news begins deep inside our emotional history as humans. When an event occurs, emotions take over to help us react quickly to a situation. We are hardwired to react strongly when we are threatened.
Fake news spurs strong reactions. We fear that this news could temporarily or permanently damage our lives. Many of us believe climate change could eradicate human life from Earth. Others believe that if we react too strongly to climate change, we might destroy our economies and break society down. Some of us believe that guns are dangerous. Others remind us that the Second Amendment of the United States Constitution gives us the right to possess a gun in the US.
We went through other raging conflicts over COVID-19, former President Trump, and climate change. In each case, we saw that emotional reactions are the fastest ones to build up into conflicts.
We then designed a roadmap to take the emotional perception of fake news to a rational level. We used...