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Whether to keep fighting misinformation when it backfires

I keep correcting misinformation in my neighborhood Facebook group but people just get angry and I'm wondering if I'm making things worse.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The impulse to heal through truth-telling meets the reality that truth-telling often deepens wounds.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Disinformation and its technology?”

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