Monthly Archive: January 2015
Bryan W. White
January 30, 2015
Here’s a contact note we received in January: First off, get with the program and implement SSL. Why would I give my regular name and email to someone who won’t protect my identity to the most basic of security requirements. Having said that, please finish reading. You are doing good work. This stuff pisses people off because it is push…
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Bryan W. White
January 29, 2015
In 2014 we first heard of a branch of scholarly research purporting to support the accuracy of mainstream fact checking. The research was mentioned in a paper by political scientists Brendan Nyhan and Jason Reifler, The Effect of Fact-checking on Elites: A field experiment on U.S. state legislators: While individual fact-checks sometimes veer into punditry or semantic disputes (Marx 2012;…
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