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Re:Snowden: Stop Relying on Facebook for Your News by caf on Wednesday November 16, 2016 @10:39PM (#12974027)
It would be good to see if that study can be replicated.
Re:Snowden: Stop Relying on Facebook for Your News by aswanson on Wednesday November 16, 2016 @10:45PM (#12974048)
"In a series of studies in 2005 and 2006, researchers at the University of Michigan found that when misinformed people, particularly political partisans, were exposed to corrected facts in news stories, they rarely changed their minds. In fact, they often became even more strongly set in their beliefs. Facts, they found, were not curing misinformation. Like an underpowered antibiotic, facts could actually make misinformation even stronger."

http://archive.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2010/07...

Re:Snowden: Stop Relying on Facebook for Your News by caf on Wednesday November 16, 2016 @11:15PM (#12974203)
I'm aware of the studies - I remember reading of them at the time - and find them fairly convincing.

It's just that since that time we've become more aware of the "replication crisis" in science generally, and it'd be nice to see independent researchers confirm Nyhan's findings.

Re:Snowden: Stop Relying on Facebook for Your News by aswanson on Wednesday November 16, 2016 @11:27PM (#12974261)
Anecdotally, it's replicated by several individuals I've run into (it seems to be the exceptional person that can process incoming data that conflicts with their worldview) and pretty much every other commenter has had similar experiences on this thread. Not scientific, of course...but...