Your political worldview is inevitably simplistic, selective, and distorted.| www.conspicuouscognition.com
Misinformation research aims to transcend politics in favour of objective scientific analysis. The broader its definition of the term “misinformation”, the less realistic that ambition is.| www.conspicuouscognition.com
What role do bias and irrationality play in shaping people's political opinions?| www.conspicuouscognition.com
Polarization, populism, and perspective| www.conspicuouscognition.com
Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy| www.marxists.org
Fake news, media bias, and the misinformation wars.| www.conspicuouscognition.com
In "Public Opinion" (1922), Walter Lippmann argued that the vastness, complexity, and invisibility of the modern world make democracy impossible. He got a lot right.| www.conspicuouscognition.com
This is often bad and we should develop stronger norms against it.| www.conspicuouscognition.com