Back in the day sage advice was "believe half of what you read and nothing of what you hear".

In today's hyper-political partisan and technologically advanced environment the Fourth Estate coupled with Silicon Valley can and does manipulate the news to a degree that our previous mortal enemies would have envied.

So we should not believe anything we read or hear without a continuing verification of the facts and an understanding of the integrity of the journalist and/or news agency

In addition this same technology has dumbed us all down.

For instance if one is honest with himself/herself the fact that we google or wikipedia something and present it causes us to actually believe since we found it we produced it. And the irony is that the search information maybe flawed or perhaps an actual lie.

So I am not surprised that the % of people who believe isn't higher;albeit it it should be. What it means is that too many of us are being duped

Personal Best Regards: