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Fact-checking reduces the circulation of misinformation – we should not get rid of it (cepr.org)
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TLDR: It reduces the virality of misinformation by ~8% and increases article deletion.

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[–] gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Used in a sentence:

Fewer and fewer people cared for Prescriptivism, as they are aware that it's an outdated model of linguistics and that it's seen as a waste of everyone's time.

Language is living and breathing, not frozen in amber

[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago

counter point: Stannis "the one true king" Baratheon