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🧵 THREAD: Why the Cato Institute’s new paper on “misinformation panic” is dangerously wrong, and why it completely misunderstands the real crisis we face.
www.cato.org/policy-analy...
www.cato.org/policy-analy...
The Misleading Panic over Misinformation
People can’t agree on how to define misinformation and its related terms, making regulation nearly impossible. Instead, free expression serves as a better tool for discovering truth.
www.cato.org
June 27, 2025 at 6:50 AM
🧵 THREAD: Why the Cato Institute’s new paper on “misinformation panic” is dangerously wrong, and why it completely misunderstands the real crisis we face.
www.cato.org/policy-analy...
www.cato.org/policy-analy...
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April 1, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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Children’s Health Defense is sending out a Measles e-book tonight with forward by now/HHS Secretary RFK Jr. Published before he got appointed but never mind that. Did you know the vaccine may kill your child and measles outbreaks are “fabricated” so pharma can profit?
Totally normal stuff.
Totally normal stuff.
March 12, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Children’s Health Defense is sending out a Measles e-book tonight with forward by now/HHS Secretary RFK Jr. Published before he got appointed but never mind that. Did you know the vaccine may kill your child and measles outbreaks are “fabricated” so pharma can profit?
Totally normal stuff.
Totally normal stuff.
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Seattle folks: I'm giving a (free) public lecture Feb 24, where I'll explain what our team's decade of research on online rumors & disinformation reveals about the once-alternative media ecosystem that is driving the rise of right wing populism around the world. www.washington.edu/facultystaff...
2025 University Faculty Lecture
A Spotlight on Rumors: Illuminating How Influence and Improvisation Shape Online Conversations
www.washington.edu
February 16, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Seattle folks: I'm giving a (free) public lecture Feb 24, where I'll explain what our team's decade of research on online rumors & disinformation reveals about the once-alternative media ecosystem that is driving the rise of right wing populism around the world. www.washington.edu/facultystaff...
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Thread - I've been thinking a lot about Walter Lippmann’s Public Opinion lately, especially in the context of Musk’s role in dismantling the federal workforce through DOGE. It’s a perfect example of what Lippmann warned about over a century ago.
February 23, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Thread - I've been thinking a lot about Walter Lippmann’s Public Opinion lately, especially in the context of Musk’s role in dismantling the federal workforce through DOGE. It’s a perfect example of what Lippmann warned about over a century ago.
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New research from Costello, Pennycook, and Rand. Can conversations with AI help reduce belief in conspiracy theories? Quite possibly. What’s the mechanism? Evidence production. Let me explain my little-t theory about how this might work.
Last year, we published a paper showing that AI models can "debunk" conspiracy theories via personalized conversations. That paper raised a major question: WHY are the human<>AI convos so effective? In a new working paper, we have some answers.
TLDR: facts
osf.io/preprints/ps...
TLDR: facts
osf.io/preprints/ps...
February 20, 2025 at 5:00 PM
New research from Costello, Pennycook, and Rand. Can conversations with AI help reduce belief in conspiracy theories? Quite possibly. What’s the mechanism? Evidence production. Let me explain my little-t theory about how this might work.
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If you work with students and data, consider adding this to your syllabus: "A guide to safeguarding ourselves while preserving the positive aspects of transforming data into visuals."
flowingdata.com/projects/dis...
flowingdata.com/projects/dis...
Defense Against Dishonest Charts
This is a guide to protect ourselves and to preserve what is good about turning data into visual things.
flowingdata.com
February 15, 2025 at 7:45 PM
If you work with students and data, consider adding this to your syllabus: "A guide to safeguarding ourselves while preserving the positive aspects of transforming data into visuals."
flowingdata.com/projects/dis...
flowingdata.com/projects/dis...
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Super key!
The Square One Fallacy www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/... @jonathanjarry.bsky.social
"We’re about to see an awful lot of this square one fallacy, as disingenuous actors and their ignorant followers argue that we have never studied things that have a large scientific literature behind them."
The Square One Fallacy www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/... @jonathanjarry.bsky.social
"We’re about to see an awful lot of this square one fallacy, as disingenuous actors and their ignorant followers argue that we have never studied things that have a large scientific literature behind them."
The Square One Fallacy
I recently had the chance to speak to an anti-vaxxer in person. Of course, he did not identify as such: they never do. He didn’t want to be pinned down and was just asking questions about vaccine safe...
www.mcgill.ca
February 8, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Super key!
The Square One Fallacy www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/... @jonathanjarry.bsky.social
"We’re about to see an awful lot of this square one fallacy, as disingenuous actors and their ignorant followers argue that we have never studied things that have a large scientific literature behind them."
The Square One Fallacy www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/... @jonathanjarry.bsky.social
"We’re about to see an awful lot of this square one fallacy, as disingenuous actors and their ignorant followers argue that we have never studied things that have a large scientific literature behind them."