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Why are intelligent adults still falling for dumb internet hoaxes?

Enrique Dans
Enrique Dans
Published in
3 min readSep 24, 2019

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Stories about viral challenges responsible for child suicides around the world are old hat, and to be honest, I pay them little mind. In fact, I’ve avoided talking about them, preferring not to give them any importance and avoid spreading them. Yet comments about these kinds of hoax still pop in unexpected places even from people I would have thought would know better, from…

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Enrique Dans
Enrique Dans

Professor of Innovation at IE Business School and blogger (in English here and in Spanish at enriquedans.com)