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Conspiracy theories are spreading on social media platforms, and algorithms promoting engagement may contribute to the problem. This article offers a public policy option promising reasonable incentives for social media companies and users to restrain our natural attraction to conspiracy
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In 2014, two researchers from the University of Chicago published a paper entitled, “Conspiracy Theories and the Paranoid Style(s) of Mass Opinion” (American Journal of Political Science). Using data from four nationally representative surveys, they found roughly half of adult
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Most conspiracy theories never come true and go down in history as evidence of human foolishness. Remember the Y2K conspiracy of the year 2000? People predicted the banking system, stock market and society’s computers in general would be flung into
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“Buildings in America do not just fall down like this.” Photo: Chandan Khanna/AFP via Getty Images Five days after a huge segment of the 12-story Champlain Towers condominiums collapsed, the building’s northern wing serves as a reminder of the devastating
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One year and a half into the Covid-19 pandemic, the novel coronavirus has infected some 180 million people and killed at least four million – and the virus’s origins are still a mystery. Now, with United States President Joe Biden
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By Paul Farhi and Jeremy Barr, Thomas Peter Reuters Security personnel keep watch outside the Wuhan Institute of Virology during the visit by the World Health Organization team tasked with investigating the origins of the coronavirus disease in February. Early
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Following the Jan. 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol, social media companies came under intense scrutiny for their role in incubating the mob attack. The CEOs of Facebook, Google, and Twitter were hauled before Congress to testify, and congressional critics
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https://reveal-player.s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/723_Reveal_PC.mp3 Episode Navigation Subscribe to Reveal Every week we drop a new episode.Get it in your inbox. Or the podcast app of your choice: From anti-vaxxers to QAnon, we look at how misinformation spreads online – and the lives it
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Topline Despite efforts from social media platforms and top health officials to combat disinformation, conspiracy theories about the coronavirus vaccine continue to spread rapidly across the internet—here’s a look at some of the recurring falsehoods threatening the U.S.’s inoculation drive.
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