Why Social Media Fact-Checking Promised Too Much
Fact-checking has gone out of fashion, at least for much of the social media "broligarchy" — that billionaire tech group typified by...
Associate Professor Fabien Medvecky is an associate professor in science communication at the Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science at the Australian National University. He is interested in the relationship between knowledge and society and how social interactions shape, create and direct what counts as knowledge.
Fact-checking has gone out of fashion, at least for much of the social media "broligarchy" — that billionaire tech group typified by...

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