Problematic social media use is associated with believing in and engaging with fake news (IMAGE)

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Problematic social media use is associated with believing in and engaging with fake news

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People displaying high problematic (excessive and dependent) social media use are more likely to engage with and believe fake news.

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ROBIN WORRALL, Unsplash, CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)

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