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Re:Microsoft threatens to stop hosting Gab unless posts are ... by koube on Thursday August 09, 2018 @05:37PM (#17728740)
This called the Rebound effect[0]. There is a Debunking Handbook[1] for dealing with this phenomenon.

There is also the idea that a lie travels around the globe while the truth is putting on its shoes, which spurred /r/AskHistorians to ban holocaust denial[2].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebound_effect [1] https://www.skepticalscience.com/docs/Debunking_Handbook.pdf [2] https://slate.com/technology/2018/07/the-askhistorians-subre...

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Re:Microsoft threatens to stop hosting Gab unless posts are ... by koube on Thursday August 09, 2018 @08:27PM (#17729745)
Apologies for the brain fart, it's not the rebound effect, it's the backfire effect[0]. I can't edit my post anymore.

[0] https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Backfire_effect

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Re:Microsoft threatens to stop hosting Gab unless posts are ... by moomin on Thursday August 09, 2018 @05:59PM (#17728932)
Now figure out how debunking works when the guy putting out hate speech can block at will and/or controls the website.
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Re:Microsoft threatens to stop hosting Gab unless posts are ... by datenwolf on Thursday August 09, 2018 @06:18PM (#17729052)
Without judging on the validity of some of the statements made/cited in the "Debunking Handbook", I can't help but wonder, how many of the psychological experimented mentioned in it are part of the reproducibility crisis.

Reading that handbook, whenever a social experiment and its outcome was mentioned, my initial thought was: "Hmm, interesting. I'd like to reproduce that experiment… several times in fact, and fiddle with the parameters, to see, if and iff so what circumstances may influence the outcome."

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