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April 15, 2024

Fake News! How the Misinformation Police Get It Wrong

1 hour 4 minutes

What counts as misinformation, disinformation or fake news? Are people so led astray by today's social media that they continually confuse facts with opinion?

Lenny examines a journalarticle by political sciientists who claim to show how people get their facts and opinions wrong. However, there's a big problem...

the researchers themseves don't understand knowledge. By misdefining what counts as fact, theitr paper provides an example of how the experts are committing the

very error they are lecturing others about. Find out how to think a little more clearly on this Come Le Us Reason Podcast.

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April 15, 2024

Fake News! How the Misinformation Police Get It Wrong

1 hour 4 minutes

Fake News! How the Misinformation Police Get It Wrong

What counts as misinformation, disinformation or fake news? Are people so led astray by today's social media that they continually confuse facts with opinion?

Lenny examines a journalarticle by political sciientists who claim to show how people get their facts and opinions wrong. However, there's a big problem...

the researchers themseves don't understand knowledge. By misdefining what counts as fact, theitr paper provides an example of how the experts are committing the

very error they are lecturing others about. Find out how to think a little more clearly on this Come Le Us Reason Podcast.

...more