Why disinformation needs to be stopped BEFORE it spreads
Let's be super clear about why you need to stop disinformation
*before* it is widely amplified. Every study looking at this that I've
seen shows clearly that misinformation and disinformation -- usually
by virtue of their alarmist natures -- have vastly greater reach than
any attempts to correct the falsehoods after the fact.
Efforts to use accurate information to "answer" misinformation and
purposeful lies are either disbelieved, ignored, and shared to a
dramatically lessor extent. Meanwhile, the liars and conspiracy
promoters move on to their next topics, and their next victims. -L
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--Lauren--
Lauren Weinstein
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