In a post previewing his remarks at the Personal Democracy Forum, The Atlantic’s Marc Ambinder endorses my call (see here, here, and here) to “name and shame” elites who promote misleading information (as well as a similar argument by Robert H. Frank):

I subscribe to the Brendan Nyhan/Robert Frank notion that social shaming may well be a valid way for fact-checkers to convince more than a handful of people that the other side is simply wrong. Frum has done a serviceable job in calling out his fellow conservatives, but he does not possess the power or the infrastructure to  shame people who cross a line.  As Nyhan proposes, when someone like Frank Gaffney, who still gets invited to major events by reputable people, implies that President Obama a Muslim, he should be shamed into hiding by his fellow conservatives. (Shaming by liberals, or mere corrections, won't work, and will often promote the myth). 

It’s fantastic to see journalists in the mainstream media endorsing the idea, but it’s not enough to call on conservatives and liberals to shun the Gaffneys on their side of the aisle. The Atlantic and other elite publications have to stop giving those people a platform to promote misinformation.