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Brendan Nyhan on the Empirical Effects of Disinformation
Brendan Nyhan on the Empirical Effects of Disinformation
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48 minutes
Released:
Feb 20, 2020
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This week on Lawfare’s Arbiters of Truth series on disinformation, Evelyn Douek and Quinta Jurecic spoke with Brendan Nyhan, a professor of political science at Dartmouth University. We talk a lot about the crisis of falsehoods circulating online, but Nyhan’s work focuses on empirical research on what the effects of disinformation and misinformation actually are. And he’s found that those effects might play less of a role in political discourse than you’d think—or at least not quite in the way you might think. They talked about the fake news about fake news and the echo chamber about echo chambers. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Released:
Feb 20, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode
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