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Mike Caulfield
@mikecaulfield.bsky.social
Author: Verified: How to Think Straight, Get Duped Less, and Make Better Decisions about What to Believe Online (University of Chicago Press 2023). Researcher, infolit/online rumor. Day job in academic tech.
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So this new piece from me talks about some election misinformation from 2022, making a point people who've read my stuff will be familiar with -- most misleading content isn't really about misleading "facts", but rather, about misleading *use* of evidence. mikecaulfield.substack.com/p/30000-regi...

30,000 registration mailers and the problem with the phrase "technically true"
30,000 registration mailers and the problem with the phrase "technically true"

It's not what the thing is, it's how you use it -- or misuse it.

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Misinformation as I've come to conceive it isn't really a belief or even a statement -- it's a set of argumentation behaviors that undermine the sense-making benefits of argument. That's a mouthful, but the article lays it out in plainer language.

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Mike Caulfield
@mikecaulfield.bsky.social
Author: Verified: How to Think Straight, Get Duped Less, and Make Better Decisions about What to Believe Online (University of Chicago Press 2023). Researcher, infolit/online rumor. Day job in academic tech.
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