Is There a Cognitive Bias in Corrections?

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There's a lot of studies about repetition and people who hear a thing repeated over and over and over again this is how manufactured consensus works actually. The illusory truth effect i think is the the cognitive bias here yes there is also the phenomenon that the correction never spreads as far as the original sensational right moment or meme or whatever so that's where you get at things like something that sounds salacious outrageous sensational is going to spread like wildfire because people want to share it.

Today’s online propaganda has evolved in unforeseeable and seemingly absurd ways; by laughing at or spreading a Kermit the Frog meme, you may be unwittingly advancing the Russian agenda. These campaigns affect our elections integrity, public health, and relationships. In this episode, the first of two parts, disinformation expert Renee DiResta talks with Tristan and Aza about how these tactics work, how social media platforms’ algorithms and business models allow foreign agents to game the system, and what these messages reveal to us about ourselves. Renee gained unique insight into this issue when in 2017 Congress asked her to lead a team of investigators analyzing a data set of texts, images and videos from Facebook, Twitter and Google thought to have been created by Russia’s Internet Research Agency. She shares what she learned, and in part two of their conversation, Renee, Tristan and Aza will discuss what steps can be taken to prevent this kind of manipulation in the future.