
The Skeptics Guide #845 - Sep 18 2021
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
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Does Fact Checking Misinformation on Line Really Work?
Jay Parini: Fact checking in our world to day is kind of a big deal. It's because it's happening all around sand. But even with good fact checking available to everyone, we have, amisn an free for all here in the united states at least. How effective is fact checking outside of the united states? The authors of this study set out to answer that was because they wanted to get outside of rich, industrialized nations. They selected three countries, like i said, who were not rich and industrialized. They selected argentina, nigeria and south africa. And they used the u k as a control for the study. Their experiment started with them making up
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