Our era’s defining battle: Facts vs. misinformation

Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center was interviewed about fact-checking in journalism, which has increased in response to rampant misinformation online. “It is not advisable to negate something; it’s advisable to displace something,” she said. “A detailed alternative account of the reality has a power that simply saying ‘that’s wrong’ or ‘no, that’s not true’ doesn’t.”

・ From Politico.com