Why people are so eager to spread false information

Subtitle is "Psychology finally found an answer to why people are so eager to spread false information."

Evidently no psychologists ever went through a "mean girls" junior high school experience, nor...

>“Even if it’s a false information,”Helgason argues, “the fact that it aligns with your ideology will make you want to share it without any hesitation.”

>“We discovered from our findings that our capability for imagination influences our readiness to overlook disinformation and political disagreement,” Helgason added.

We have never not been ideological.

>False information continues to grow in our “post-truth” society not only because people believe lies, but also because we often give lying a moral pass.

I don't think I even agree that we are a "post-truth" society. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-truth

What is even being said here? It's not some 'we used to only ever tell the truth'. It's not that... people have lied since before recorded history. It's not 'we used to have some truth in society but we have none anymore' that's easily disproven.

Brexit and 2016 elections are very interesting though from the wikipage.They are both examples where public opinion via polling vs secret vote differed greatly. Or better yet, coverage by media greatly differed from actual results.

I then look at their experiment from OP and it's lying on resumes? Which I find is the equivalent of lying to pollsters.

It's not that we are post-truth. They just found a couple examples where lying is pretty well an expectation?

Let me propose that we are not post-truth but rather we are living in the consequences of cancel culture. It's not safe to tell the truth in cases like brexit and trump.

It's important to see why as well. If you are a trump supporter, good chance you're not going to be cancelled by your neighbour. It's the media and pollsters who do this cancelling.