Can Fact-Checking Counter Misinformation?
Not Another Politics Podcast
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What Are the Effects of Fact Checks on Factual Beliefs?
Backfire proposes that if i give you some accurate piece of information, you will become less informed as a result. But then in this paper that we're oing to talk about to day, you dive headlong into debates about and concerns about the coronivirs pandemic. Any meaningful engagement is likely to only exascerate incorrect beliefs and and all the pathologies that flow from themy i think that's right. It's important to underscore how profoundly problematic backfire would be if it were widespread.
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