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The Power of Political Misinformation

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This entry was posted on 9/24/2008 4:53 PM and is filed under Politics.

Check out this Washington Post article about how people react to political misinformation and specifically how they react after the misinformation is debunked.  The results are very interesting and maybe surprising (or maybe not so surprising given human nature).

 

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