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How to battle misinformation with Sander van der Linden

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The Importance of Misinformation in Society

misinformation is everywhere in the sense that there is wrong information either according to scientific consensus or fact checks. It's manipulators trying to do people, and you can find that increasingly online. People burn down 5G mass in UK because they're linking conspiracy theories about 5G cell towers to the coronavirus. And so I think, you know, misinformation really is growing at an accelerating rate online which we didn't have before.

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