emptywheel Retweeted Matt Grossmann
Looking to American history to understand how our rather exceptional version of what we call "truth" has decayed is probably not the most enlightening comparison.https://twitter.com/MattGrossmann/status/953243676192452608 …
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RAND tried to track Truth Decay over time in new report:
https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/research_reports/RR2300/RR2314/RAND_RR2314.pdf …
Finds increasing disagreement on facts is most unique to our era. But doesn’t cover partisan asymmetry or conservative role in critiquing press & academia: https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2016/10/11/how-conservative-movement-has-undermined-trust-academe-essay … pic.twitter.com/HcSzZrigW2
4:39 AM - 16 Jan 2018
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