It's very hard to tell what causes the most damage. GMO crops can save countles people from starvation, and it's very hard to run counterfactuals about what would or wouldn't happen without them in a given place. Same with the ? of the exact causal effect of vaccine misinfohttps://twitter.com/jbrenner2000/status/1487480454198476804 …
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Replying to @jessesingal
Isn't the pandemic still going on? Aren't thousands of people dying from it every day? Haven't nearly a million Americans died from Covid? Spreading false information in that situation is different than making false & refutable claims during normal political times.
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Jeet, your outlet referenced the "attempted murder" of Jacob Blake, said he was 'unarmed,' and said the people Rittenhouse shot were 'unarmed.' Such misinfo surely contributed to $1b - $2b in rioting and dozens of deaths. Deplatform The Nation or just these authors?pic.twitter.com/JkOOw7dXLR
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Weird what about-isms since the crucial point that medical misinformation in the midst of a pandemic is different than other types of misinformation.
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Okay, so in your view we'll have a panel decide which sorts of misinformation are okay, and why, and this panel will decide that The Nation's misinformation -- largely delivered while people were being killed and blocks burned down in rioting -- isn't severe enough?
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I think you and I have a very different understanding of what causes people to riot.
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The repeated misinformation surrounding the Blake shooting definitely caused some ppl to riot…is that even disputable?
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Yeah. Read some history. Start here and also Heather Thompson's work.https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691162553/the-origins-of-the-urban-crisis …
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That book was written in 2014. How is that going to give insight into how misinformation regarding Jacob Blake contributed to the Kenosha riots?
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Because riots don't spring from nowhere and you need to actually know some American history to understand where they come from. Reading is good for you and I encourage it.
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Jeet- Appreciate the patronizing attempt at trying to teach an American American history…and it’s not as if I disagree with the overall premise here but you appear to be purposely ignoring the facts of the Blake shooting and the rather common sense link to the rioting in WI
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