
#55-How to Identify BS and When and How to Challenge It-with Guest Jevin West
Thinking Clearly
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Are We Getting More Misinformation?
Bob Greene: There's a lot of varying opinions about this about the level of current misinformation that we're exposed to. He says it's actually really hard to measure, but he does think we're seeing more of it at higher density partly because we're just seeing information at higher volumes period. Greene: We have bots and algorithms sifting things to you that many times are far from the truth. But then you also have all the honest degradations of information out there as we spread these pieces of information without context or depth.
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