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How to battle misinformation with Sander van der Linden

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The Effect of Repetition on Persuasiveness

Repetition tends to increase the persuasiveness of misinformation. Brain mistakes what we call fluency for truth if it's repeated too many times. People even find it less morally objectionable to post a lie later on because they've heard it so often, he says. "There isn't actually that much research on how the resist persuasion"

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