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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"
It's not what the thing is, it's how you use it -- or misuse it.
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.
4.1k followers1.1k following4.3k posts