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
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Mar 7
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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!) "