“It's not unusual for politicians of both parties to mislead, exaggerate or make stuff up. But American fact-checkers have never encountered a politician who shares Trump’s disregard for factual accuracy.”
www.politifact.com/article/2024...

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Megastudy testing 25 treatments to reduce antidemocratic attitudes and partisan animosity
a) Many treatments reduce partisan animosity
b) Some treatments reduce support for undemocratic practices/political violence
c) a & b are pretty unrelated
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

charles murray was about to give up on his career as a conservative writer and try publishing a thriller when plutocrats lifted him up with their grant money, oh my god

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Conspiracy beliefs famously resist correction, ya?
WRONG: We show brief convos w GPT4 reduce conspiracy beliefs by ~20%!
-Lasts over 2mo
-Works on entrenched beliefs
-Tailored AI response rebuts specific evidence offered by believers
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The purpose is to raise awareness on the U.K.'s low paternity leave benefits, which currently stand at two weeks of paid time off for new fathers.

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