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Social media users probably won’t read beyond this headline, researchers say (www.psu.edu)
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A new study of 35 million news links circulated on Facebook reports that more than 75% of the time they were shared without the link being clicked upon and read

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[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

And there are a bajillion of them, and all completely random. You could read for the rest of your life and not get through a single day's worth of shared articles. That said, you really should read something before sharing it. That part is just stupid.