Tag: misinformation
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The road to hell is littered with good and bad intentions.
First, a primer. Arrogance is more a difficult social phenomenon to mitigate than ignorance. For example, a person that is aware that they are ignorant of chemistry, at least has the intelligence to understand that they don’t understand that subject. Whilst that ignorance will mean they can’t understand what air pollution is, at least there…
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Is this post fake? (this post will cause negative emotions for some people)
This article is not a particularly balanced critical evaluation. It focuses more on why there is so much social crap posted on the internet. The internet can be used as a tool to share reliable information, or it can be used to spread forms of gossip (e.g., propaganda) Rather than write how l fact-check posts…
The Empirical Perspective 