{"id":626,"date":"2008-09-16T14:40:24","date_gmt":"2008-09-16T19:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/julianlong.net\/wordpress\/?p=626"},"modified":"2008-09-16T14:40:24","modified_gmt":"2008-09-16T19:40:24","slug":"dukakis-replayed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/julianlong.net\/wordpress\/dukakis-replayed\/","title":{"rendered":"Dukakis replayed?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m grateful to Jonathan Martin and Ben Smith at Politico<\/a> for putting me onto this video<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Yesterday’s Washington Post carried a piece by Shankar Vedantem<\/a> reporting on some recent research into the power of political misinformation.<\/p>\n

But a series of new experiments show that misinformation can exercise a ghostly influence on people’s minds after it has been debunked — even among people who recognize it as misinformation. In some cases, correcting misinformation serves to increase the power of bad information.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It’s worth reading — I find myself wanting to see the whole study. And I also find myself wondering what it says about a democratic system such as ours that people not may not take the trouble to become informed about the facts of a matter, but may actually prefer to be misinformed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m grateful to Jonathan Martin and Ben Smith at Politico for putting me onto this video. Yesterday’s Washington Post carried a piece by Shankar Vedantem reporting on some recent research into the power of political misinformation. But a series of … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[39,37,38,40],"class_list":["post-626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-politics","tag-disinformation","tag-dukakis","tag-misinformation","tag-political-lies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/julianlong.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/julianlong.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/julianlong.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/julianlong.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/julianlong.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=626"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/julianlong.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":630,"href":"https:\/\/julianlong.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626\/revisions\/630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/julianlong.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/julianlong.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/julianlong.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}