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# Why There Are So Many Rumors About Kate Middleton

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## Transcript

I think it's disingenuous to say why the same people believe this stuff right and that replied that they're not saying all that. I know whatever they're often with the information they got Coming to what they say is a reasonable conclusion is also tied in with some emotional engagement by there, but I can save the royal family all they worried about that welfare. They believe that that is a political activity. They don't lie. They all becomes kind of a mess. And the truth is we can all to do this to me. We can read a newspaper and really believe I had lying cuz he fits with what we believe xcetera don't question it.

Right and I think if it was abused and then a few days later we find some other fights at ago. Actually that wasn't quite the case. I put it 90 takes a lot of knowledge sometimes to unpack. The real from the fake. It's not a logical but it reflects a big issue which is a levels are kind of critical digital literacy in the UK population and kind of developed Nations population. She's not high and we know that from research we know that from ofcom research that shows that a good proportion of the population count to freshen J between the advert that and then I'd bet that another Google results and then they don't understand how those results have been generated Seminole a people can often find it hard to differentiate between real news and disinformation stuff.

Cuz that's formatted the same on my Facebook page, right? So I think that kind of implicit thing and not headline is that somehow people doing something after we had I must find people I'm not doing that. Of course, there are groups of people with very strong beliefs, you know that we might load and like or dislike and I will they might have political beliefs. We dislike all they might have extreme political beliefs. They not going to look at the news and unused content and say about take a balanced view across that cuz I have a clear view of what they think the world is like. So again, if the stuff I read fix that view without the help, they will go down.

It doesn't even remember in the UK and other parts of the world the royal families a very special institution too many people in lots of media coverage of the recently added me another different couples me and I are the different members of the royal family, you know that relationships what's happening inside where I am. Your family is also very public but also very secretive. And so does an information Gap there on the numbers and information got them people will fill it. And like I said if what is filled it is something that fits other people's believe so give them a worry. I'll give him a feeling that guy in it inside and they may get thrown in so I don't think it's I don't think they're all families like specifically different case then the others.

I think it's just rather than information got that people have gotten emotional commitment to their ability to evaluate the quality of the information that gas tank is low. And we got we have the suction fast-moving mediascape. Yeah, actually good news good information. Good journalism takes a little bit longer and it leaves the space the others confederal in the way that we we do on social media, and I thought the problem is I think lots of people there don't have the media and digital literacies. I need to manage that kind of Hose pipe of noise that comes through that takes alcohol that I said, I would like Facebook all what's happened and differentiate the stuff work cuz that was previously don't bite you and I think I might 3 newspapers and broadcast them sell them.

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