I'm doing some writing on disinformation right now, and the most important take away is not necessarily that we should be more critical of false information (even though we should)
It's that we should be more critical of how that information is affecting us.
It's that we should be more critical of how that information is affecting us.
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The goal is to charge powerful emotions and wedge social divisions. Framing does that at least as much as factuality.