Given the toxic effects of unreliable news reporting, it was only natural that someone would come up with the logical idea of putting a warning label on it. Will slapping a warning label on toxic news sources have any effect? But if you make a steady diet of unreliable news and see warning label after warning label, it may eventually sink in and cause you to improve your sources for news consumption. There is a wide spectrum of circumstances that may bring you face to face with a warning label when the effectiveness of that label may depend on some sort of cognitive “Russian roulette”-- a game of odds to determine if the label will impact you. If this wasn’t true, we wouldn’t need a warning label.

Source: Washington Post June 15, 2022 06:09 UTC