The Misinformation Conversation

There are psychological factors at the individual level that might encourage somebody to believe something that's false. We might not be able to get along as well with people around us, or achieve certain social goals if we don't maintain a particular impression of ourselves among other people. There can also be structural reasons. So people can come to believe things that are not true in part because of structural factors that maybe would prevent them from exposure to better information. The misinformation conversation can encourage us to look at allof our sucietal ills in terms of knowledge problems.