Brendan Nyhan

Month: November 2020

  • New WaPo: Five myths about misinformation

    From my new piece in The Washington Post: Misinformation presents a challenge to the American political system. Unsupported claims can distort debate, deceive voters and encourage contempt for the other party. In the final days of the presidential race, for instance, hundreds of thousands of people in key states received mysterious text messages with falsehoods

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