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Is it actually false, or do you just disagree? Why Twitter’s user-driven experiment to tackle misinformation is complicated

  • Written by: Eryn Newman, Senior Lecturer, Research School of Psychology, Australian National University
Is it actually false, or do you just disagree? Why Twitter’s user-driven experiment to tackle misinformation is complicated

Over the past year, we’ve seen how dramatically misinformation can impact the lives of people, communities and entire countries.


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