"There's never been a better way to spread a hoax than social media, but there's never been a better fact-checking desk than social media," he said.
Describing the "boomerang effect" in an academic article by P. Hart and Erik Nisbet, the academics say that motivated reasoning explains why simply providing more and better facts based on science can actually increase polarisation on issues like climate change.
During a long period the educational system as well as the dominating research has been concentrating on providing better facts in a search for the best knowledge, high degrees of generality and objectivity.
And a better fact-checker.
These customers realize that there is tremendous opportunity to use their growing mountains of data to make better, fact-based decisions.
More and better facts don't turn low-information voters into well-equipped citizens.
Some of these questions can be answered by more research and better facts.
Fourth, better person fact recall (vs. building fact recall) or recognition (vs. hammer fact recognition) does not guarantee differences between conditions at encoding.
Who better, in fact, than Brook?
