Our opinion: How to sift election fact from fiction
Our opinion: How to sift election fact from fiction
- August 19, 2019
- Cailin O'Connor and Jim Weatherall, LPS, Houma Courier, Aug. 19, 2019
A helpful set of simple guidelines comes from Cailin O’Connor and James Owen Weathrall, associate professors of science at the University of California, Irvine. They have written a book, published earlier this year, called “The Misinformation Age: How False Beliefs Spread.” They shared these and other tips in March in a blog post at Yale University Press:
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