Brendan Nyhan

Month: March 2020

  • Foreign Affairs: COVID-19 is not like political speech

    From my new Foreign Affairs article with Sarah Kreps: In the desperate fight against the novel coronavirus, social media platforms have achieved an important victory: they have helped limit the dissemination of life-threatening misinformation that could worsen the pandemic. But this success should not cause us to adopt a similar approach to political speech, where

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