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We Can't Combat Fake News If We Don't Really Understand It Social media is creating real problems for the world, but moral panics still far outweigh reality. That's a recipe for policy disaster. Brendan Nyhan Follow Mar 7 Credit: darenwoodward/iStock/Getty Images Plus 735 Even now, more than two years after the 2016 election, the debate over the influence of social media on our political system still relies largely on scary anecdotes (Twitter's 50,000-plus impostor accounts are sowing chaos!) "