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Re:Is It Journalism, or Just a Repackaged Press Release? Her... by ubersync on Tuesday April 23, 2013 @12:47PM (#5596245)
Yea it was an exploit of a cognitive bias (confirmation bias, to be exact [1].)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias

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