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The Human Error Behind Fake News with David Rand

The Decision Corner

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Fake News and Echo Chambers

One of the big worries around faknews and echo chambers is that they move us away from a world of shared facts in a somewhat trivial way. What we're seeing now with this polarization, and fake news as a great example of that, is that we get hived off into these small groups who much less to do with each other. How do you see these nudges not only taking care of the very visible problem of fake news and disinformation, but this slightly deeper problem of epistemic disconnects between communities? I thinkha, they are in some sense sep issues. And if what you're doing is just saying, i'm a down rank content only make it so people don't

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