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2016 Postmortem

TwilightZone

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3. Completely agree.

Reply to Skinner (Reply #2)

Wed Dec 7, 2016, 02:15 PM

Dec 2016

Simply believing a story is not as important as why they believe it or what they do with the information. Or how they act on it.

Also agree that we have to figure out how to teach people to use critical thinking skills - and freaking Google. Some of the stuff people believe is so blatantly false that the response seems almost Pavlovian. Ring bell, hit Share.

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I think the focus on whether voters believed a headline, in isolation, is missing the point. Skinner Dec 2016 #2

Completely agree. TwilightZone Dec 2016 #3

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