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Given the results in the comments, one might suspect the headline here is the real fake news
There's a significant filter on the fediverse's audience, since it requires finding it, figuring out how it works, and so on. I feel we're mostly tech/internet savvy here.
listen I just want to feel good about getting a good score on a test.
It seems like the study is more about identifying common dog whistles in headlines than actual misinformation. A shift in population demographics happens all the time so that one could be true, but the phrasing of non-white hints that is is probably an article loaded with misinformation about the cause and implications of the demographic shift. No idea how it was scored though.
The answer for that one was true.