The Misinformation Age: How False Beliefs Spread

The Misinformation Age: How False Beliefs Spread

The social dynamics of “alternative facts”: why what you believe depends on who you know

Why should we care about having true beliefs? And why do demonstrably false beliefs persist and spread despite b…

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