Digital Smarts - Understanding the Misinformation Effect

When trying to explain misinformation to kids, it is important to understand how misinformation gets started and persists. The misinformation effect is the tendency for post-event information to be added to the memory of the original event. Researchers have shown that the introduction of even relatively subtle information following an event can have a dramatic effect on how people remember. A good introductory article on the subject is The Misinformation Effect and the Psychology Behind Fake News.