So basically, politely correcting false info just makes things worse. If so, how are we supposed to fight disinformation?
Quoted emollick's tweet:🤦 Let’s say you see someone make a mistake & post a false political story on this website. So you point it out to them, politely. What happens next?
The partisan slant & toxicity of the person you corrected’s future tweets goes up & their quality drops! https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3411764.3445642
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