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Articles tagged conspiracy theories (17)

“I had people believing outlandish, harmful things who were repeating back to me the values that I, as a journalist, have. Your mind melts.”
Plus: “Subtly inducing people to think about the concept of accuracy decreases their sharing of false and misleading news relative to accurate news,” and the scariest deepfakes of all.
Plus: Outrage-tweeting is a dangerous thing, and why we have to teach students not to be “trust misers.”
“For a lot of people, the real assumption that they bring to the news, even beyond their partisan affiliations, is an expectation of a smooth narrative…That’s the real bias that readers have to combat, and it’s something that people in the media have to think about.”
More evidence that Twitter’s algorithm rewards spikes over steadiness.