Abstract
Why do people fall prey to fake news stories? Can't they just tell when they come across them? Having such easy access to real facts and fact checkers surely takes care of the problem, right? Unfortunately, part of the reason that fake news is such a problem is that people do fall for these stories, and being shown the facts doesnt help correct this problem. This is due to a feature of human thinking called cognitive biases. A cognitive bias is a gap in reasoning, remembering, or evaluating something that can lead to mistaken conclusions. They're universal. Everyone has them. This section explains how cognitive biases operate what goes in inside people's heads that makes us more likely to fall for fake news, and for us to continue to believe false information even after it's been corrected.
