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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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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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One of those behaviors is discourse communities failing to provide or seek the full context of evidence to see if the evidence truly fits the argument once its context is known.

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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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