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British academic Chris Dawson called for a legal crackdown on fake news (Photo: Chris Dawson)

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Why populism appeals to less brainy EU voters

People who voted for Brexit tended to be less clever, new research shows, in findings that also shed light on the appeal of EU populists, such as Dutch politician Geert Wilders.

Some 73 percent of people in the smartest top 10 percent of the British population voted to stay in the EU back in 2016, according to a fresh study by the University of Bath in the UK.

Just 40 percent of those at the ot...

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