Bandwagon fallacy §

Date created: 2022-05-15

Doing the bandwagon fallacy means using popularity as a form of validation for an idea.

But the popularity of an idea has nothing to do with its validity. We know that false beliefs and false news spread quicker and more widely on social networks, for example.

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References §

• Vosoughi, S., Roy, D., & Aral, S. (2018). The spread of true and false news online. Science, 359(6380), 1146–1151. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aap9559